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A Film Romance: Woody Allen’s THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985)

Feb 23, 2015 Kyle Turner 0

The movies are a dream, where our unfulfilled desires come to life. The movies are a kind of wish fulfillment. Not least of all for Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a woman who lives her unfortunate existence […]

Opinion

Celluloid Dreams: Why We Love Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.

Apr 22, 2014 Kyle Turner 1

Enough people have written extensively on Buster Keaton’s 1924 masterpiece Sherlock Jr., not to mention Andrew Horton’s book on the film, and certainly there have been a plethora of those who have written on the […]

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