...as a brunette, yet. By 1967 the former child actress had not yet achieved the full sex-kitten effect that would so transfix Charles Bronson in 1969's Twinky, and be so…
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What else? Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest. Happy President's Day, whatever that is. I'm off to the Film Forum to catch the ineffable…
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From Cocteau's 1946 La Belle et La Bete. What else would you expect? This particular beast was introduced to his beauty in the late summer of 2002, and has been…
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Here's something you don't see every day—a shot from the point of view of a floor on which a dead man sprawls. The departed is George Fellsinger (Rory Mallinson), and…
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The "heavenly tribunal" meets the operating room; A Matter of Life and Death, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946 For quite a few of the people who revere it, Michael…
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