There are some filmmakers who take the viewer into their confidence from the very first shot of a film, infusing it with such a particular atmosphere and attitude that one…
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In Baby Doll, 1956You want to talk about actors with no vanity? This guy is where you start. Vanity, of course, is not the same thing as family and/or ethnic pride.…
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"...of him who walks on once again along these corridors, through these salons and galleries, in this edifice of a bygone era, this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel..." "...of him…
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All dialogue and indignant e-mail whingeing guaranteed verbatim. Okay, the Bay grumblings I made up.INTERIOR, AN OFFICE IN A MALIBU MANSIONMICHAEL BAY sits at a computer, typing furiously. He appears…
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Filling the frame with multiple signifiers, then filling it with a single signifier, then going back to the multiples, leaving the viewer to connect certain dots...this sort of thing is…
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Gian Maria Volonte gives a beautifully insinuating performance as polyglot gangster Luciano in Francesco Rosi's intriguing, underrated chronicle of multi-generational gangsterism, Lucky Luciano, the subject of today's Foreign-Region DVD Report,…
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