Gina Marès in Coeur fidèle, Jean Epstein, 1923. Screen captures from the frankly amazing Eureka!/Masters of Cinema Blu-ray/DVD combination package, which is a must that I'll be writing on further…
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Tokyo, or something like it, in Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972 Aside from being a bit of a dick about it on Twitter, because being a bit of a dick about…
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Not to be too much of a smart-ass or anything, but really. "The movie sometimes assumes viewers know the details of these luminous lives, so it may be helpful to…
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In his recent biography of Cecil B. DeMille, Empire of Dreams, Scott Eyman points out: " DeMille's images became part of cinema's DNA, and, as already noted, many of his…
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The conventional wisdom in certain circles is that this quasi-sequel/companion piece to 1952's The Bad And The Beautiful is both a weak and weird sister to the prior film. I…
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