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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Scary Vampires
Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer Remember when vampires used to be scary? Vampires have been re-invented so many, many times over that having a non-traditional vampire has become its own trope. As TV Tropes points out, there’s even a … Continue reading
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Tagged Carmilla, Count Dracula, Dracula, horror, movies, Sheridan Le Fanu, TSPDT, vampires, Vampyr
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René Clair
Entr’acte (1924), Un chapeua de paille d’Italie (1928), Sous les toits de Paris (1930), Le Million (1931), À nous la liberté (1931) dir. René Clair The apex of René Clair’s career was during the transition from silent film to sound. Other … Continue reading
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Tagged À nous la liberté, Dada, Entr'acte, film, France, Freedom for Us, Le Million, lottery, movies, musicals, Paris, René Clair, silent films, Sous les toits de Paris, The Horse that Ate the Hat, The Italian Straw Hat, TSPDT, Un chapeua de paille d'Italie, Under the Roofs of Paris
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L’eclisse – Antonioni’s Wasteland
L’eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni Antonioni’s characters are creatures without meaning; people who are unnecessary and without whom the world would still go on. Critic Adriano Aprà makes the point in an interview available on Hulu – the world exists before the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriano Aprà, Alain Delon, existentialism, film, Italian films, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, movies, Rome, TSPDT, wasteland
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Truthful Cinema
Les maîtres fous (1955) dir. Jean Rouch Chronique d’un été (1961) dir. Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin If a documentary is supposed to be true to life, what does this mean for the documentarian? The problem is especially acute for ethnographic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chronique d'un été, colonialism, documentaries, Edgar Morin, film, France, Haku, Jean Rouch, journalism, Les maîtres fous, movies, Niger, Paris, reality TV, TSPDT
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