Here's Dominique Thomas and Ella Creton in Catherine Breillat's imaginative, provocative, shocking, and hilarious adaptation of Perrault's fairy tale, Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard). I caught it at the New York Film…
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You're going to have to go to The Auteurs' Notebook and check out my Topics/Questions/Exercises of the week to find out. And of course you want to!
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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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Apologies for the light posting. I've been operating under the spell of what I might call a jag lately. Not a chemical jag, but a creative one. Perhaps I'll be…
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...and it's a family affair in Pedro Costa's still-incredible 1980 1989 feature debut O Sangue (Blood), now out in a gorgeous UK DVD from Second Run. This one-time Costa sceptic, now…
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So I was out and about earlier today, hanging at my favorite street-date-violating DVD emporium, discussing the State of Things with a friend of mine whose generation is at least…
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