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"I mean, why do we have to make another ‘Indiana Jones’? There was no point to it, other than, gee, this might be fun."
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Siskel and Ebert debate Cronenberg’s Crash
Ebert: “he’s trying to make a pornographic movie without the pornography - he’s taking the form of a pornographic movie without the function or the content - he’s substituting car crashes for the usual erotic stuff in order to show the mechanism of human compulsion and obsession, and it’s a fascinating study of the way the mind works in connection with images we connect with sex”
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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?”
— Alice Munro, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You -
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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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