...of who's-the-madman-and-who's-the-physician, who's-the-subject-and-who's-the-object, lunatics-taking-over-the-asylum pictures...have you watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari again recently?This granddaddy of all such cinematic visions is particularly pertinent to Shutter Island, I think...
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The most conspicuous writing on Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's art-world past went up on the Huffington Post last week; Bettina Korek briefly chronicling Bigelow's "life in art," and quoting from…
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Nicholas Ray and James Mason,Bigger Than Life, Ray, 1956 Two films of 1956 seem to turn one of the predominant genres of the Eisenhower era on its head. In certain…
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One of the consolations of art is that it can be used to remake the world, up to a point. And this consolation applies as much to the artist doing…
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While I am extremely eager to move ahead from the discussion of just how egregiously I have sinned against Nathan Rabin, there is within that quarrel what some attorneys might…
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