Ugestu Monogatari, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953. There has been an awful lot of...stuff written pertaining to the "Greatest Films Poll" sponsored by the British Film Institute and Sight & Sound magazine…
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I was quite honored, this spring, to receive an invitation to participate in the British Film Institute/Sight & Sound "Greatest Films Of All Time" poll. Now that the results of that…
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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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Herewith, my humble contribution to a wonderful cinephilia-friendly cause, the third For The Love Of Film Blogathon, proceeds from which will help finance a restoration of a worthy film in…
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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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