The Last Place You Look: "Bad Influence"
Zach CampbellHow a wild robbery scene unexpectedly and simultaneously expresses two approaches to cinematic genre.
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The Last Place You Look: "Dark Blue"
Zach CampbellDark Blue affords viewers a fascinating problem for the way digital footage is being inserted into modern films.
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Quandt's "Bresson": Round Two
Zach CampbellA look at the second, revised edition of James Quandt’s crucial anthology, Robert Bresson.
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The Last Place You Look: "Diary of a Hitman"
Zach CampbellAn inaugural post in a series. Diary of a Hitman is a melancholic crime movie, with the benefits of modest, expressive craft.
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Republic of Cinema: A Book on Joe
Zach Campbell"My sense is that Joe and his films bring out the best in people. And that his swift rise to prominence, to the upper ranks of the cinema republic has not lessened but strengthened his
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Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Zach CampbellAbove: Germany Year Zero. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. Many of the extras (interviews, visual essays) included in this Criterion DVD set are more or less standard, which is not to say unappreciated
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The Book He Never Wrote
Zach CampbellIn Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber, editor Robert Polito has included a book proposal written by Farber in the 1970s. The book not written would have been called Munich
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The Peking Order
Zach CampbellNicholas Ray. Did Hollywood produce any other figure in whom inhered the very ethos of the struggling Artist against the System? Well, there was certainly Orson Welles. But Ray? The case of Ray
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Now on DVD: “Dov'è la libertà...?” (Rossellini, 1954) and “Blackout in Rome” (Rossellini, 1960)
Zach CampbellRoberto Rossellini’s mid-career output is best known for The Flowers of St. Francis or his Ingrid Bergman collaborations like Voyage to Italy. But we should welcome two films from the period have come