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Daily Archives: July 21, 2011
“No Exit”: Brute Force (Jules Dassin, 1947)
This explosive, powerhouse prison film effectively reunites a large number of cast and crew from the previous year’s The Killers: producer Mark Hellinger, composer Miklos Rózsa, screenwriter Richard Brooks (uncredited for his Killers work), star Burt Lancaster and actors Edmond … Continue reading
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Tagged asphalt jungle, battle of alcatraz, brute force, burt lancaster, charles mcgraw, edmond o'brien, existentialism, hamlet, hume cronyn, jean-paul sartre, jules dassin, mark hellinger, miklos rozsa, richard brooks, richard wagner, sam levene, tannhauser overture, the killers, william shakespeare
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“Flower of Evil”: Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
Japanese New Wave meets old-style film noir in Masahiro Shinoda’s exceptional black-and-white film, every bit as extraordinary as his later Double Suicide (1969), a cubist/minimalist deconstruction of a well-known Kabuki drama. In addition to the prevalent noir tropes (location shooting … Continue reading
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Tagged luis bunuel, film noir, nagisa oshima, pale flower, masahiro shinoda, japanese new wave, double suicide, yakuza genre, gambling film, kabuki drama, toru takemitsu, j-horror, andre breton, nadja, crazed fruit, rebel without a cause, sun tribe film, cruel story of youth, charles baudelaire, flowers of evil, henry purcell, dido and aeneas
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