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Kristin here:
So says director Guillermo del Toro in his self-deprecating lead-in to his audio commentary on the great Danish filmmaker’s 1932 classic, Vampyr . Fortunately he did not act on his words but goes on to give an erudite, often personal series of insights into the film.
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Donald Richie is in a Tokyo hospital recuperating from pneumonia.
If you’ve read a book on Japanese cinema or listened to a Criterion commentary, you probably know his voice. And if you admire Ozu or Kurosawa or Mizoguchi or Kinoshita or Oshima or virtually any other Japanese ...
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DB here: If you wanted a prototype of
some unique visual pleasures of 1930s cinema, you could...
do worse than pick this innocuous image. It’s perfunctory in narrative terms, merely telling us that Sylvia Day is calling on Bill Smith. Beyond its ...
Daisies in the crevices
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One of several posters the Stenberg brothers designed for Miss Mend .
We’ve been quite busy in the tail end of October. David sweated over a Bresson essay, started on his online version of Planet Hong Kong , and continued to help out in Lea Jacobs’ seminar on film stylistics. ...
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Imitation of Life . DB here: I do
not like finding phallic symbols in movies. I grant...
you that there are some films that deliberately evoke the love wand: Tex Avery cartoons, Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis movies. Surely the Wolf in Avery’s ...
Between you, me, and the bedpost
