* About twenty minutes into my first viewing of this utterly beguiling film, observing the bizarre behavior of one of its lead characters Georges Palet (an exquisite performance by André…
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This morning at The Auteurs', I discuss why Antonioni and Blu-ray disc are two great tastes that taste great together; BFI's wonderful high-def rendering of Red Desert is the topic…
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I was obliged to revisit Otto Preminger's 1959 Anatomy of a Murder for another professional project, and boy, am I glad I was. Such a spectacular film, arguably the ultimate…
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Okay, it's "too soon," and yeah, I'm a bit tired, but, still...here's my Facebook page update as of now: "Resnais' Wild Grass is a whacked-out masterpiece with an ending worthy…
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...film within film, 1913 style, in Louis Feuillade's A Tragic Error, also in the Kino Gaumont box referenced below. It's funny, I was thinking the other day, about how when I…
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Almost a year ago over at The Auteurs' Notebook, I wrote about the deplorable state of affairs concerning the DVD incarnation of John Ford's beautiful, unusual 1950 film Wagon Master.…
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