Who was it that said Cinemascope was only good for shooting snakes and funerals?The above funeral takes place in Douglas Sirk's sublime 'scope achievement A Time To Love And Time…
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...are over at IFC.com. This week it's one for three. That is, one masterpiece, Kiroshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, and two servings of tripe, John Maybury's The Edge of Love and…
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...Richard Attenborough was a pretty compelling screen performer, and his 1947 turn as a religious (sort of) gangster in a picture that ran in the U.S. as Young Scarface (for…
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Above, a typically arresting image from George Kuchar's hilarious and strangely humane 1977 I, An Actress, starring Kuchar and Barbara Lapsley, one of the 26 films collected on Treasures IV:…
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And he likes it, kinda.As I wrote to a friend who was asked to provide DVDs to the good professor last week (and who did, and whose label doesn't even…
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...because I'm sleepy. It's an imperfect image—obtained with camera, not computer screen-grab—and I'm not gonna say where it's from, because it might be a fun guessing game. Although I've learned…
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