Adolf Hitler in Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), Leni Riefenstahl, 1934. "Triumph of the Will and Olympia are undoubtedly superb films (they may be the two greatest documentaries…
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With Boris Karloff and Tim O'Kelly. See also here.
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It's difficult to really formulate, in one's memory, just how that quality we now know as "buzz" was generated in the days before this mess we're all in now, but…
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So for some reason or other the "film criticism, que-est-ce-que c'est" question is heating up again, in venues far and wide. First it's the topic of discussion between the ever-insouciant…
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Premiere magazine had a lot of editorial capital invested in Titanic. During its production the publication treated it to more than one story, including a very long on-set feature by…
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What follows below in a different typeface is excerpted from a post I wrote for my old blog at Premiere, "In The Company Of Glenn," apropos the opening of the…
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