Last month the Film Society of Lincoln Center showed, as part of its "Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi" series, Karel Zeman's 1958 Vynálaz zkázy, an unusual live-action/animation hybrid derived from several…
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Enrique Irazoqui as Christ in Il vangelo secondo Matteo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964 Screen capture from the standard-def disc of the invaluable Eureka!/Masters of Cinema dual-format edition of the film. …
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Some rate Orson Welles' 1965 Shakespeare compression/adaptation Chimes At Midnight as a) the greatest Shakespeare film ever, or at least close, and/or b) one of Welles' greatest cinematic achievements period.…
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Because the Some Came Running readership demands it. Or requests it, or something. (And while I try to be accomodating, no I don't think Typepad is gonna let me allow…
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Who says this blog is afraid to answer the tough questions, to boldly tackle the really burning issues of the day? To wit: Given that VCI Entertainment issued a not-all-that…
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An entire book, or at the very least some sort of monograph, could be written about the ways that various old-school Hollywood directors (and even some not entirely old-school and/or…
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