castle of illusion |
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“This is the last film of Stanley Kubrick — indeed, he died so soon after delivery of his cut that the legend quickly grew that he intended doing more things to his movie. But it’s hard at the end not to see the substantial gulf between the man who “everything” about filmmaking but not nearly enough about life or love or sex (somehow, over the years those subjects did get left out). Not that the film lacks intrigue or suggestiveness. Mastery can be felt. It is just that the master seems to have forgotten, or given up on figuring out, why mastery should be any more valuable than supremacy at chess or French polishing.”
“It is a shock to find that the film is only 159 minutes. Every frame feels like a prison.” (via Slammin’ Shut :: Hollywood Elsewhere)
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Two-toned shoes as harbingers of sociopathy: Farley Granger & Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train (1951, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
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“Art essentially has nothing to do with morality, convention or moralizing. I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial, for...
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“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
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“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”
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In his droll 1989 book Making Meaning, the American scholar David Bordwell makes fun of a standard procedure in discussing film. Let us take...
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Still via Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
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