Tag: film
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Silent Movies: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Deeply moving and in places surprisingly funny, Sunrise was released in 1927 at the end of the silent era, and is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. A farmer (George O’Brien) is having an extramarital affair with a woman from the nearby city (Margaret Livingston). Stylish and sophisticated, she seduces him into agreeing to kill his wife…
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Silent Movies: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Earlier, I mentioned in my post about Louise Brooks that film scholars consider Pandora’s Box to be (arguably) one of the three best of the silent era. Each was revolutionary in its own way, and all have had incalculable influences on subsequent filmmakers. This one is the second of the trio. Joan of Arc movies largely have been unsuccessful with…
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The Last of Sheila
One of the best and most overlooked movies of the `70s, The Last of Sheila (1973) also is among the cleverest mysteries ever written — with good reason, since the screenwriters were Anthony Perkins (yes, that Anthony Perkins) and Stephen Sondheim. Despite the fact that it starred James Mason, Raquel Welch, James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, and Dyan…
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SILENT MOVIES: Louise Brooks, The Quintessential Flapper
I love movies. Hollywood classics, foreign movies, and really old, silent movies. If you haven’t made a habit of watching pre-sound films, you might not know the name Louise Brooks. She was one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, intellectually brilliant, sexually uninhibited, pleasure-loving, strong-willed, non-conformist, and a marvelous dancer. Unsurprisingly, she was…
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