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To Each His Cinema, part 2 (2007)
Second half of shorts listing from Cannes 60th anniv. celebration (first half is here): It’s A Dream by Tsai Ming-liang Occupations by a hatchet-wielding Lars Von Trier The Gift, more weirdness by...
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The House Is Black and other shorts
The House Is Black (1963, Forugh Farrokhzad) I’ve seen this a couple times before, and there’s really nothing to be said. Farrokhzad brings poetry to a leper colony, with thrilling results. It sits...
View ArticleI Married a Witch (1942, Rene Clair)
Fun movie, but I made the mistake of reading the Guy Maddin article before watching. The movie itself could never live up to that article! French expatriate Clair directs Veronica Lake (the year after...
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Fred (of early Bunuels – also good roles in major Renoir movies, but I suppose I’ll always think of him as the enraged looney from L’Age d’Or) is would-be rapist who steals pretty Pola’s key to...
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