The Shakespeare adaptations of the 1990s and early 2000s are unified by an excess of style, and by a series of […]
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Several years ago, while parsing out my love for the films of the late, lamented Tony Scott, I came to a […]
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Proto-indie filmmaker Roger Corman once said, “Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons […]
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Early in Claire’s Knee, Eric Rohmer’s 1970 comedy/drama, our protagonist Jérôme engages in an idle, maybe-hypothetical-maybe-not with his old friend Aurora, […]
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Imagine an early 20th century drawing room, or alternatively, a fog-laden crypt. Suddenly from the shadows he emerges—a man with pale […]
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In the Shadow of the Guillotine. The Murderous Corpse. The False Magistrate. The titles are as macabre as the masked madman […]
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how […]
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These days, Hunter S. Thompson is arguably more famous as a movie character than he is a writer. Founder of the […]
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“A lightweight story.” That was what Hitchcock called his 1955 romantic thriller: “It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.” In his […]
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Sofia Coppola’s career is nearly universally concerned with the unspoken loneliness of womanhood, and her directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, often […]
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A coming-of-age film without a slut is like an ice-cream without sprinkles: there’s just something missing. She’s the ‘easy’ girl who’s […]
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“Life, every now and then, behaves as if it had seen too many bad movies.” So notes Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) […]
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