Or, to be more accurate, Heaven's town hall/courthouse and Hell's outer office. From Powell and Pressburger's 1946 A Matter Of Life And Death and Ernst Lubitsch's 1943 Heaven Can Wait,…
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A ballsy Georges Marchal gives his greetings to the local authorities in Death in the Garden, a 1956 Luis Buñuel oddity from right before his second great period. Why oddity?…
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Vulgar, no? Do you know the film? No, it's not Where The Wild Things Are. Or Law-Abiding Citizen, for that matter. A surprising Blu-ray choice, to be sure. I once considered…
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From The Golem, 1920, Paul Wegener and Carl Boese.Which reminds me, I gotta get in gear and write up the Coens' fabulous A Serious Man soon. Not at all a…
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A rare moment of reprieve, a fleeting evocation of a particular mode of lyricism, from Alain Resnais' Muriel, ou les temps d'un retour, 1963. Viewed in advance of a New…
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Approaching complete abstraction in The Roman Orgy, Louis Feuillade, 1911.In my alternate-universe film history, Feuillade's Judex takes the place of Griffith's Birth of a Nation and everybody goes home happy.I'm…
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