Well. Now that the official lineup of this year's Cannes Film Festival is out, and the blogosphere du cinema is all abuzz with excitement over the lineup, while more mainstream…
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Black Narcissus, directors Powell and Pressburger, 1947War and Peace, director King Vidor, 1956 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, director Albert Lewin, 1951 The Barefoot Contessa, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954…
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From The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948I think I can say without fear of contradiction that he was the Midas of cinematographers—everything he lit turned to beauty.…
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Above, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong trading fours in Howard Hawks' 1948 A Song Is Born. By Robin Wood's lights, this is a "vastly inferior" remake of Hawks' own 1941…
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...disturb the troubled-to-begin-with sleep of Mimsy Farmer in 1974's Il profumo della signora in nero, a beautiful but strangely uneventful (up to a point) giallo. Somehow by my non-attendance at this…
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Miss America (Dagne Crane) serenades "traitor" Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) and the jury in Bananas, 1971.So I turn on CNN last night to have something to listen to while I…
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