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Early Surrealist Films
UN CHIEN ANDALOU AND L’AGE D’OR This essay will examine the early films of Luis Buñuel as they relate to the Surrealist Movement active in Paris throughout the 1920s. We will begin by giving a brief introduction to Surrealism as … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, cinema reviews, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, l'age d'or, luis bunuel, movie, movie reviews, movies, salvador dali, surrealism, surrealism in film, un chien andalou
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Symbolic Exchange And Death
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) This essay will examine a complex series of interlocking metaphors, both verbal and visual, which recur throughout Hitchcock’s Psycho and which articulate a concept that Jean Baudrillard has labelled “symbolic exchange.” This notion – arising from … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, alfred hitchcock, anthony perkins, cinema, cinema reviews, claude chabrol, erich rohmer, ferdinand saussure, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, georges bataille, janet leigh, jean baudrillard, karl marx, marcel mauss, movie, movie reviews, movies, psycho, shower scene
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Voluptuous Immobility
The Cult of Death in The Brotherhood, The Leopard and The Godfather Trilogy Martin Ritt’s The Brotherhood (1968) can be situated as a middle term between Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1962) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990). … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Pacino, burt lancaster, cinema, cinema reviews, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, francis ford coppola, goodfellas, joe pesci, kirk douglas, luchino visconti, mafia film, marlon brando, martin ritt, mob, movie, movie reviews, movies, organized crime, robert deniro, talia shire, the brotherhood, the godfather trilogy, the leopard
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Faking It: Five Easy Pieces (1970)
After the lysergic cut-up routine/sitcom deconstruction that was his directorial debut, Head (1968), Bob Rafelson executed an abrupt about-face: He produced, co-wrote and directed this slice-of-life character study in dissatisfaction and irresponsibility. Eschewing the rapid-fire editing and psychotronic tomfoolery of … Continue reading
