The Complete "Vertigo Variations"
Daniel KasmanOne of 2011’s best films: a feature length, hugely ambitious video essay on the mysteries of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
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Image of the day. Ideal Couples #3
Daniel KasmanGary Cooper and Helen Hayes embrace in one of the great romanticist Frank Borzage’s masterpieces, A Farewell to Arms (1932).
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Notebook Reviews: Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage"
Daniel KasmanOutrage is a minimal but forceful answer, full of precision and self-critique, to fans who want more yakuza from Takeshi Kitano.
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Notebook Reviews: Bertrand Bonello's "L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)" a.k.a. "House of Pleasures"
Daniel KasmanBertrand Bonello’s turn of the century brothel film leaves behind something mysterious, lingering, like some left hanging in a vacated room.
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Image of the day. John Ford, Complete with Tux, Signet, & Eye Patch
Daniel KasmanLessons on how to be the man. (Not shown prerequisites: directing Air Mail, They Were Expendable, How the West Was Won.)
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Notebook Reviews: David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method"
Daniel KasmanDavid Cronenberg’s film tackles Jung, Freud and psychosexual frontiers with a supreme, stately restraint.
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Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #8: Joan Bennett's Blonde Hair, Pt. 2
Daniel KasmanA scene of erotic reverie in Frank Borzage’s Doctors’ Wives featuring a young, gorgeous Joan Bennett.
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Image of the day. Cecil B. DeMille Directs Headless Man, Giant Phallus
Daniel KasmanA photograph by Yul Brynner of the legendary director on the set of The Ten Commandments.
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Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #7, or: How to Make An American Thriller in Europe
Daniel KasmanTwo thrillers by François Truffaut and Wim Wenders surprisingly share the exact same cinephilic object.
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Notebook Reviews: Lars von Trier's "Melancholia"
Daniel KasmanThe delirious, tragic romance of woman’s anxiety is at the center of the new Lars von Trier.
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Notebook Reviews: Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss"
Daniel KasmanWerner Herzog turns to a small town in Texas and a death penalty case to find alien expressions of violence and grief.
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Triangulating the Rust Belt: Notes on Tony Scott's "Unstoppable"
Daniel KasmanFound on my cine-hard drive, notes for an review of Tony Scott’s great 2010 thriller, Unstoppable.