Above, a shot taken with a camera off of my Hitachi plasma display, of a particularly arresting image from the Blu-ray iteration of The Criterion Collection's new edition of John…
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Incidentally, your humble servant has recently made a return to, ahem, Twitter, where he, ahem, tweets under the moniker "AvengingC" (for "Avenging Conscience," you see, after the Griffith picture). These…
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L'amour par terre, Jacques Rivette, 1984 Une visite au Louvre, Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 2004 Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, 1985 One of the greatest cinematographers of this or any other era.…
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Why valedictory? Two reasons. One, I dunno...it's a fun idea, and a fun thing, to, you know, put up here...but I don't wanna get to the point of it being…
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Tushingham in Zhivago. Screen cap from the DVD Beaver review. As I discussed in last week's Topics, etc. at The Auteurs' Notebook, there's a lovely new Blu-ray edition of David Lean's…
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