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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 andre breton, charles baudelaire, crazed fruit, cruel story of youth, dido and aeneas, double suicide, film noir, flowers of evil, gambling film, henry purcell, j-horror, japanese new wave, kabuki drama, luis bunuel, masahiro shinoda, nadja, nagisa oshima, pale flower, rebel without a cause, sun tribe film, toru takemitsu, yakuza genre
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Capsule Reviews: May 18 – 21
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961) – 5/5 Olmi, who worked extensively in documentary films throughout his career, carries that format’s impartial aesthetic over to his depiction of Milan’s corporate dehumanization and vapidity. Following a young man – clearly a semi-autobiographical … Continue reading
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Tagged anatomy of hell, anne parillaud, bicycle thieves, catherine breillat, cinema, cinema reviews, ermanno olmi, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, il posto, in the realm of the senses, jean gabin, le jour se leve, marcel carne, michel simon, movie, movie reviews, movies, nagisa oshima, perfect love, pierre brasseur, port of shadows, roberto rossellini, rome open city, sex is comedy, vittorio de sica
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Capsule Reviews: May 1 – May 8
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) – 5/5 De Palma’s masterpiece succeeds brilliantly both as paranoid political thriller and personal rumination on the profound power – the sympathetic magic – that results from putting sounds and images together. Features one … Continue reading
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Tagged abel ferrara, alberto cavalcanti, anthony mann, au hasard balthazar, blow out, braveheart, brian de palma, catherine breillat, charles bukowski, charlotte rampling, chimes at midnight, chris penn, christopher walken, cinema, cinema reviews, claire trevor, coup de torchon, crazy love, dead bang, dennis o'keefe, dirk bogarde, drag me to hell, fat girl, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, fyodor dostoyevsky, griffith jones, guiseppe rotunno, in the realm of the senses, insidious, james wan, jigoku, john alton, john frankenheimer, jose mojica marins, kiss of death, le notti bianche, liliana cavani, louis malle, luchino visconti, marcello mastroianni, maria schell, marsha hunt, maurice ronet, michelangelo antonioni, mondo macabro, monica vitti, movie, movie reviews, movies, murder a la mod, nagisa oshima, nino rota, nobuo nakagawa, orson welles, pop. 1280, raw deal, raymond burr, red desert, richard harris, richard widmark, robert bresson, sam raimi, the damned, the fire within, the funeral, the killer inside me, the night porter, they made me a fugitive, this night i'll possess your corpse, touch of evil, trevor howard, vincent gallo, white nights, wild boys of the road, william wellman
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