Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings
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Thursday, June 8, 2017
Humoresque (Jean Negulesco, 1946)
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John Garfield and Joan Crawford in Humoresque Helen Wright : Joan Crawford Paul Boray : John Garfield Sid Jeffers : Oscar Levant Ru...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
The Women (George Cukor, 1939)
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Despite the sad novelty of its all-female cast, George Cukor's film flunks the Bechdel test completely: All the women in The Women t...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, 1945)
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I doubt that I would have recognized Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne as a film by Robert Bresson if I hadn't already known it was the s...
Monday, June 5, 2017
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
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Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf is unquestionably a "horror movie" -- i.e., one filled with incidents and images and narr...
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Torment (Alf Sjöberg, 1944)
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For all the menace emitted by "Caligula" (Stig Järrel), the sadistic teacher in Alf Sjöberg's Torment , for me the most chil...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
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El Hedi ben Salem and Brigitte Mira in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Emmi : Brigitte Mira Ali : El Hedi ben Salem Barbara : Barbara Valent...
Friday, June 2, 2017
Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953)
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Humphrey Bogart called John Huston's Beat the Devil a "mess," which it is, but much of the messiness is due to Bogart's...
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949)
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Those of us of a certain age can remember when the phrase "foreign film" meant one thing: sex. Which was something the Productio...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
A Story From Chikamatsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
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Kyoko Kagawa and Kazuo Hasegawa in A Story From Chikamatsu Mohei : Kazuo Hasegawa Osan : Kyoko Kagawa Ishun : Eitaro Shindo Sukeemo...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
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Donatas Banionis in Solaris Kris Kelvin : Donatas Banionis Khari : Natalya Bondarchuk Sartorius : Anatoliy Solonitsyn Snaut : Jüri ...
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