"A feminist, psychedelic, surreal Eastern European answer film to... ...Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." That would be Daisies, Vera Chytilova's sui generis 1966 freakout, which I submit to a bit…
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Not to keep harping on this Last Year At Marienbad disc, but its existence does give one the opportunity to see if there really is a shot-by-shot pastiche from Gilda…
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"...of him who walks on once again along these corridors, through these salons and galleries, in this edifice of a bygone era, this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel..." "...of him…
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So I was looking at Paramount's new disc of John Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Volume 8 of the company's very welcome Centennial Collection, and enjoying the…
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Wade Crosby as Danton, Richard Baseheart as Robespierre; Reign of Terror, Anthony Mann, 1949 Wojciech Pszoniak as Robespierre, Gerard Depardieu as Danton; Danton, Anrzej Wajda, 1983Two versions, two visions. Mann's…
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Assassin's wound, Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro, Hajime Sato, 1968 Amfortas' wound, Parsifal, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, 1982I'm just as perplexed about the whole thing as you must be. But I try to make sense…
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