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The Phantom Nuance | Movies | Culture Snob
The aim would have been to strip away the audience’s ideas about heroism and villainy, and turn that black-and-white world into a sea of muddled gray. The first Star Wars trilogy is a scrubbed and polished artifact of memory — like fondly misremembered youth — and this second trilogy should have had the cold and unforgiving reality of adulthood. And that approach would have then made it logical to watch the new trilogy after the original one, thus mitigating some of the technological and filmmaking disconnect between the two.
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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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