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Brideshead Revisited - Bright Young Things in Love and Pain - NYTimes.com
…necessarily shorter and less faithful to Waugh’s book [than the mini-series], and also, for what it’s worth, more cinematic. It is also tedious, confused and banal.
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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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