I was quite honored, this spring, to receive an invitation to participate in the British Film Institute/Sight & Sound "Greatest Films Of All Time" poll. Now that the results of that…
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Update (2 Aug 2012): The unfinished screener of Song of the Kauri that I watched had a caption that stated that New Zealand imported more timber than it exported. It…
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Second from right, with William Wyler, Christopher Fry, and Charlton Heston, on the set of Ben Hur, 1959. For almost an hour I watched a television commercial being made on…
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'Power and freedom.' Coupled together, these two words are repeated three times in Vertigo. First, at the twelfth minute by Gavin Elster ('freedom' underlined by a move to close-up) who,…
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Jacqueline Wells and Boris Karloff, The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934. It's useful to go back to the well every now and then, rediscover what got you entranced by…
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