Movies
SHORT CUTS: That’s Life
Following the success of The Player (1992), which was widely regarded as a return to form for director Robert Altman (even though eclecticism is often what defined the best of his work), Short Cuts seemed […]
Month: August 2018
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Building The Bridge at Remagen
World War II served as the backdrop for many movies during the 1960s, some based on non-fictional events, some purely fictional, with others riding somewhere in the middle. The late 1960s, in particular, brought, it […]
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The Passion of Joan of Arc — A Meditation on Three Soundtracks
Few films have been so passionately apotheosized as Carl Theodor Dreyer’s reconstruction of Joan of Arc’s historical trial and execution. What more can be said about its style, its acting, its editing, its impact on […]
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AN ACTOR’S REVENGE
Kon Ichikawa was initially apprehensive when the higher ups at Daiei Studios informed him that his 1957 film The Men of Tohoku would be in anamorphic widescreen. Ichikawa—that great auteur who helped bridge the gap […]