The writer/director and now only-sometime actor Woody Allen brought his new film, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, to Cannes last week. I'm not there, so I didn't see…
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Above, a shot taken with a camera off of my Hitachi plasma display, of a particularly arresting image from the Blu-ray iteration of The Criterion Collection's new edition of John…
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I had the privilege and pleasure over the weekend of revisiting this, a Hitchcock film to which one can justifiably apply the three "U"s of cinephilia: underseen, underrated, underappreciated. This…
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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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