The opening shot of The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford, 1940In his recent video appreciation of this film, The New York Times' A.O. Scott admits to being a little gobsmacked: "I'd…
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Pups is Pups, 1930Citing "strange, surrealist gags and bursts of anarchic violence," Dave Kehr, reviewing a new box set, taps in to some of the unusual appeal retained by the…
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Michael Kutter and Robert Lloyd, Parsifal, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, 1982Du sieh'st mein Sohn, zum Raum wird hier die Zeit...Parsifal is one of those corkscrew artifacts of culture in which you get…
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Birth of a Notion, Robert McKimson, 1947In which a cartoon Peter Lorre waxes disconsolate to his dog, Leopold, over his difficulties obtaining a duck wishbone for one of his experiments.…
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Out of context, it's a pleasing, slightly melancholic picture; in context it's one of the most quietly heartbreaking final shots in all of cinema. That's the criminally underrated Dickie Moore…
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