"Master," get it? Huh, huh?For context, see post directly prior to this one.1) La sortie des usines Lumiére, L'arivée d'un train á La Ciotat, etc., etc., Auguste and Louis Lumiere,…
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Now that the Paper of Record has all but reified the notion, it's a good time for Topics/Questions/Exercises to examine The Putative Carrying Of Martin Scorsese's Water. At The Auteurs',…
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She was charming, she was graceful, she had the voice of an angel, and—not too put too fine a point on it or come off as loutish or anything—she was…
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Regular readers of this blog have probably figured out that as far as movies are concerned, I'm not necessarily the world's biggest content freak. Nevertheless, I experienced several moments during…
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Having established that at one point in his career Andrew Sarris did indeed proclaim Max Ophuls' 1955 Lola Montes "the greatest film of all time," I now opt to ignore…
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...no wonder people social-climb in New York, since it has more genuine social mobility than London or Paris, where clothes, accents, and manners reveal all too much about origins and…
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