...of who's-the-madman-and-who's-the-physician, who's-the-subject-and-who's-the-object, lunatics-taking-over-the-asylum pictures...have you watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari again recently?This granddaddy of all such cinematic visions is particularly pertinent to Shutter Island, I think...
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So...guess there aren't a whole lot of Costaphiles in this neck of the woods, huh? Or Pialat fans, for that matter... Moving right along...among the many grumbles I've heard about…
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Above, from Ossos (1997)I suppose before going into Costa's sin I ought to confess my own, which is that I walked out of the first Cannes press screening of Colossal…
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"If you don't like me..." Pialat and Depardieu in Sous le soleil... Maurice Pialat's cauterizing 1987 film Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan) has finally gotten the…
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Above: The gatefold illustration of the first LP by Hatfield and the NorthSo. For reasons that are obscure even to myself, I'm on this kick where I'm trying to see…
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It had been nearly two years since Durtal had ceased to associate with other men of letters. In books, above all, but also in newspaper gossip columns, and in biographies…
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