Who was it that said Cinemascope was only good for shooting snakes and funerals?The above funeral takes place in Douglas Sirk's sublime 'scope achievement A Time To Love And Time…
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Above, a typically arresting image from George Kuchar's hilarious and strangely humane 1977 I, An Actress, starring Kuchar and Barbara Lapsley, one of the 26 films collected on Treasures IV:…
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Pinocchio, on my 50-inch plasma displayBelieve you me, I am not one to wax nostalgic over the days of VHS. But it's an indisputable truth that back then, things were…
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From Cocteau's 1946 La Belle et La Bete. What else would you expect? This particular beast was introduced to his beauty in the late summer of 2002, and has been…
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To any readers of this blog who are going to be in Manhattan or its general vicinity today, February 8, and/or tomorrow, February 9, I implore you: get thee to…
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Bow down, puny mortals, to the great Dagmar Krause, here singing with Henry Cow, Vevey, 1976In case you're wondering about just which micro-budgeted artistic aggregation your humble blogger has zero…
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