Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Tabu; French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris, 1923-1928
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Author: Gordon Thomas
Gordon Thomas, trained as a painter, is a photographer living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with his wife. Film has fascinated and worried him ever since, as a small child, he saw Godzilla in 1954.
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: City of Women, Tess, Tsar to Lenin, The Promised Land, Nanook of the North, The Wedding of Palo
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The Blue Angel; The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling; Fritz Lang: The Early Works: Harakiri, The Wandering Shadow, and Four Around the Woman; Hello I Must Be Going
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Book review: Col. William N. Selig, by Andrew A. Erish
Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood by Andrew A. Erish. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. Cloth, $60.00, 303pp, illustrated. ISBN: 978-0-292-72870-7. Anyone writing about a pioneer of[…]
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Das Weib des Pharao, Confidence, The Navigator, Casa de Lava
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The Woodmans, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, All Screwed Up, Mother Joan of the Angels, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Four Polish Cinema Classics: Innocent Sorcerers, Goodbye, See You Tomorrow, Eroica, Night Train, A Trip to the Moon, The Spiders
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“Nun-Lust, Torture-Porn, Church-Desecration and Bad Taste”: Reconnecting with Ken Russell’s The Devils
“Sex mingles easily with religion, and their blending has one of those slightly repulsive and yet exquisite and poignant flavors, which startle the palate like a revelation — of what? That, precisely, is the question.” – Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun “The Devils is Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with open sores, open bonfires, court intrigue, the King shooting Protestants for sport, the callous and ludicrous behaviour of the Inquisition, the two-facedness of the King’s soldiers and sex-deprived nuns. It’s about the corruption of a whole town and the man at the centre who defies it. — Ken Russell, quoted in the London Times, March 13, 2012
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Birth of a Nation, Way Down East, Medea, Bellflower, Touch of Evil
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Strike, Red Psalm, The Phantom Carriage, Meek’s Cutoff, Go West, Battling Butler
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Laila, Alice, People on Sunday, Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection, 1920-1923, Szindbád, Coeur Fidèle
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: A Blonde in Love, The Lighthouse, The Clowns, Senso, Our Hospitality, William S. Burroughs: The Man Within
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The Black Pirate, Night of the Hunter, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Howl, The Elia Kazan Collection
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Metropolis, the Reconstructed Original Cut: Does It Make Sense? Does It Need To?
“The resurrection of Fritz Lang’s original cut has revealed how well this film functions with its associative network of image layered onto an adventure/SF thriller, but the reasons for its mysterious pull coalesce into an x-factor that resists analysis.”
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Adelheid, The War Lord, The Exploding Girl, The Law, L’Enfance Nue, Chaplin at Keystone
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Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
Memos from a Chinese Laundry: Reading Josef von Sternberg
“I would very much like to attract others into my world, but my world is not the world of crowds, though the crowds have often lined up before my world.”1
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Institute Benjamenta, There’s Always Tomorrow, Valley of the Bees, Everlasting Moments, Chicago, The Unpolished
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Lola Montès, City Girl, The Constance Talmadge Collection, The Norma Talmadge Collection, Black Snow, Permissive, The Italian Straw Hat
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Blood, Monsoon Wedding, The Exiles, The General, Sunrise, 8-1/2, Death in the Garden
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Crime · Silents · Thrillers & Action
The Power of Pulp: Madness, Mayhem, and Relevance from Dr. Mabuse to Miss Mend
“The shadow of Mabuse falls over the 1926 Soviet adventure serial Miss Mend, too, but without the angst and gloom of Lang’s Der Spieler.”
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