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History of Film (10 posts found)
History of Film: “Psycho”
Our survey of the 1960s concludes as Kevin Ketchum looks back at Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece.
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History of Film: “Lawrence of Arabia”
All of them. Forget all the other movies ever made. David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia is the reason we go to the cinema. All the great works of art take us somewhere; this movie is one of the greatest objects in the greatest of crafts. Every time we face a scree...
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History of Film: “2001: A Space Odyssey”
It may be only mild hyperbole to state that 2001: A Space Odyssey is, like The Jazz Singer and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Citizen Kane, one of the true monoliths of all cinema, a guiding and transformative force for the future. Divisive as it’s been s...
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History of Film: “Persona”
Ingmar Bergman was one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of international art cinema, and his brand—seen as probing, introspective dramas that sought to explore human nature at its barest, even despite the fact that Bergman’s output was quite varied and often t...
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History of Film: 8 1/2
I came to Federico Fellini’s 8½ late, but not for lack of trying.
As a dutiful student of Roger Ebert’s Movie Home Companion -- in those antediluvian pre-Internet days the annual installments were bestowed upon me as a Christmas gift every year, then I’d sp...
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History of Film: “Once Upon a Time in the West”
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The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, the Argentines have Borges, but the Western is ours.
- Robert Duvall
The Western may be the only art form entirely specific to a time and p...
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History of Film: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”
I’ve always wondered about the scroll of words at the beginning of 1964’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. They’re so important they precede the Columbia Pictures lady:
“It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force th...
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History of Film: “The Graduate”
"Hello darkness, my old friend"... Rewatching The Graduate is a true time travel. Not only because it's been almost half a century since Mike Nichols' cult piece has seen the daylight, during which period fashion and music have changed drastically and Dustin H...
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History of Film: “The Apartment”
“Your home is your domain” the saying goes, a simple enough concept I've been pondering quite a bit lately, going through a transitional and rather plainly “domainless” phase that will entail living in a temporary arrangement. I suspect anyone who has dealt wi...
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