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Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)

“Ivan’s Childhood contains in utero many of the formal and thematic preoccupations that would come to the forefront in Andrei Tarkovsky’s later masterpieces. Now viewers can bask in the film’s ample visual delights with Criterion’s gorgeous new Blu-ray transfer.” Read … Continue reading

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Birthing Bad: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

My contribution to the engrossing new issue of The Acidemic Journal of Film and Media situates Lars von Trier’s divisive Antichrist in its “Nordic horror” genealogy.

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Take Two: Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946 & Don Siegel, 1964)

[Introducing Take Two, a new feature on this blog that will explore the contextual (historical, aesthetic and otherwise) similarities and differences between two versions of the same material, whether two films based on the same source or simply original and … Continue reading

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