Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955 The digital guru and blogger Anil Dash has raised hackles in cinephile circles today with a lengthy and rhetorically free-wheeling (to say the…
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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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My friend Brian Koppelman has a piece up at Grantland as part of its "Oscar Travesties" mini-series, called "The Boning of Goodfellas." It treats, of course, what a sham of…
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NOT Lawrence of Arabia. I don't want to make too big a deal of this, as God forbid I should get another scolding from a commenter on account of writing…
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My friend Aaron Aradillas wrote the below piece for another website, but due to an editorial mixup, it could not run there. That site's loss is SCR's gain, though, as…
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So. I was getting ready to retire the other night, as I've gotten to be a bit of an early-to-bed-and-early-to-rise type of late, and I thought before that I'd check…
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