...but if you're the only woman on a volcanic island inhabited by Japanese soldiers who won't believe that World War II is over, you're certainly special. Above is Akemi Negishi…
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Regular readers of this blog have probably figured out that as far as movies are concerned, I'm not necessarily the world's biggest content freak. Nevertheless, I experienced several moments during…
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Having established that at one point in his career Andrew Sarris did indeed proclaim Max Ophuls' 1955 Lola Montes "the greatest film of all time," I now opt to ignore…
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In celebration of the tri-state area's snow day yesterday, I cobbled together a classic Universal horror double feature while My Lovely Wife took an afternoon work-release nap. I started with…
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In his review at DVD Beaver, Gary Tooze notes that the spine number of the Criterion box set containing three Roberto Rossellini masterpieces is 500, an appropriately auspicious number for…
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It is a notorious, and notoriously unresolved, tale of espionage: a one-time White Russian general, in exile in Paris, connives with both the Soviets and the Nazis in the mid-1930s.…
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