Michel Piccoli, Capri, and the Mediterranean Sea in Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 The impulse behind posting this image does not, for once, reside in this blog's obsession with Godard and…
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The old woman calls the shadow revels to an end...; Vampyr ...was on November 4, 1980. Election day of that year. I had come into Manhattan from New Jersey to…
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For its first hour or so, The Devil, Probably, Robert Bresson's 1977 film, seems like the most difficult of the inimitable master's works, for the most banal of reasons: that…
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Forgive the dodgy qualities of this screen grab; as I don't yet have the equipment to do Blu-Ray disc frame burns directly (and to be completely honest with you, I'm…
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At one point during his excellent commentary for the New Yorker Video edition of Robert Bresson's L'Argent, my friend Kent Jones takes a minute or two to lambaste what he…
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What with all the online controversy about the new Blu Ray disc of Franklin J. Schaffner's Patton, I was finally motivated to check out the thing myself the other night.…
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