Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). This is how the frame appears in the current Eureka!/Masters of Cinema Blu-ray disc edition of the…
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Marisa Berenson and Ric Menello, February 2013. Photograph by Mel Neuhaus. I never had the privilege of meeting the cinephile and cineaste Ric Menello, who died on March 1 at…
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Sometimes I wonder whether the thing I'll most be remembered for as a critic will be having gone easy on proclaimed-to-be-foredoomed-by-mainstream-media Disney blockbusters. Yeah, I see that Oz The Great And…
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All I needed was for ONE person to ask... Afternoon in Akureyri. The Northern Lights without a tripod. Orkan gas station, Akureyri. Part of my "Counterfeit Wim Wenders Stills" series.
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"There's also the slight matter of the movie's central fallacy, which is a belief that all a work of art needs in order to commune with The Irrational is merely…
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