...but if you're the only woman on a volcanic island inhabited by Japanese soldiers who won't believe that World War II is over, you're certainly special. Above is Akemi Negishi…
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Jeepers creepers. My consideration of the in-progress Film Comments Selects series, featuring Phillipe Grandrieux's Un Lac (that's its costar Alexei Solonchev in the still above), among a good many other…
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So. I know I promised a contribution to the wonderful Film Preservation Blogathon hosted by The Self-Styled Siren and Ferdy on FIlm. I kind of like to think that everything…
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"Master," get it? Huh, huh?For context, see post directly prior to this one.1) La sortie des usines Lumiére, L'arivée d'un train á La Ciotat, etc., etc., Auguste and Louis Lumiere,…
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Now that the Paper of Record has all but reified the notion, it's a good time for Topics/Questions/Exercises to examine The Putative Carrying Of Martin Scorsese's Water. At The Auteurs',…
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She was charming, she was graceful, she had the voice of an angel, and—not too put too fine a point on it or come off as loutish or anything—she was…
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