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Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)

“Erich von Stroheim liked to refer to the traduced and truncated version of Foolish Wives as ‘the skeleton of my dead child.’ Looking at the film today, it’s plain to see there’s still plenty of meat on those bones.” Read … Continue reading

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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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