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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Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #10: A Band-Aid on Anne Wiazemsky's Leg
Daniel KasmanAn unexpected detail in Robert Bresson’s 1966 masterpiece, Au hasard Balthazar.
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Wim Wenders' "Tokyo-ga"
Kurt ShulenbergerWith Wenders’ name back in circulation with the release of Pina, we discover the great music from another of his documentaries.
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Image of the day. Orson Welles in "The Adventures of Tintin"
Daniel KasmanA joshing jab at the great auteur in the English adaptation of Red Rackham’s Treasure.
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Image of the day. John Wayne x 4
Daniel KasmanNo one throws a punch like John Wayne.
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Depression Lessons #5
Daniel RiccuitoGeorge Raft delivers a speech to Joan Bennett that should be dripping with self-pity but instead soars with slang and speed.
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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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Depression Lessons #4
Daniel RiccuitoA work-in-progress lexicon of depressed speak. Tell offs and witticisms as amorphously surreal as a Max Fleischer cartoon!
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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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The Camera Moves #5
gina telaroliLight, shadow, and a moving camera keep Eddie G and company locked up with nowhere to go in the opening of Hugo Fregonese’s Black Tuesday.
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The Deaths of Cinema, cont.
Uncas BlytheRoger Deakins: Film is Dead, Long Live Film.