Who am I talking about? Who but Robot Maria, the evil cyber-alchemical doppelganger of sweet organic Maria in Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis. No joke. In the above shot Robot Maria's letting…
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...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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So...guess there aren't a whole lot of Costaphiles in this neck of the woods, huh? Or Pialat fans, for that matter... Moving right along...among the many grumbles I've heard about…
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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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