In Boxcar Bertha, Scorsese, 1972The actor, who was in his way as much a cinema icon as a television one, was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, according to…
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A quite representative shot from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1957 Il Grido, a film that seems to take place in a perpetual mist, not really that unlike the atmosphere in Dreyer's otherwise…
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The estimable MovieMan0283 of the blog The Dancing Image tags me with a meme, or whatever it is they call it, and honestly, I don't mind at all, as the…
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I like to consider myself a reasonably open-minded, live-and-let-live kind of guy. I figure, if Noah Baumbach, whose films as a writer-director I like a good deal, wants to play…
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...and then you get a Western, and it's not really that good. I think the biggest reason I've been in a crappy mood since Sunday is 1959's The Gunfight At…
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Warner's recent DVD release of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 Zabriskie Point is welcome for many reasons, not least because it gives us a beautiful and anamorphically enhanced version of the film…
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