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Jurassic Park

Directors · SF & Fantasy

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The Man Who Shot John Ford — in 3D: Spielberg Retrofits Jurassic Park with Mixed Results

  • April 30, 2013

“As cold and insincere as it may be for Spielberg to flush an ‘updated’ version back into theaters as a marketing blitz for the forthcoming 3D sequel, Jurassic Park still exemplifies, for better and worse, the staying power and effectiveness of Spielbergian theme park ride filmmaking, independent of the fact that it is actually about a theme park, and its success is a testament to how skilled he can be at showing an audience what it wants to see.”

La Petite Marchand

Directors · Reviews · Silents

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From La Fille to Dr. Cordelier: Character and Environment in the (Mostly) Early Works of Jean Renoir

  • January 31, 2013

“Renoir’s static images contain a great deal of emotional intensity — like that last lyrical shot of the sun setting in La Fille — and the sheer beauty of his two-dimensional compositions generates an emotional involvement within the viewer (like that in the viewer of a painting) and a sense of emotional treatment of the romantic material within the frame, yet preserves an awareness of the existence of a larger world beyond the borders of the frame.”

Wallace Ford and Charles McGraw

Directors · Genres · Noir

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Mann in the Dark: The Film Noirs of Anthony Mann

  • April 30, 2012

“The morally complex interrelationship of hero/villain, which is partially accountable for the remarkable intensity of his films, has at its roots the film noirs of the 1940s. The darker side of human nature, the interiority of these earlier, psychologically troubled characters, is the determining force in Mann’s noirs. We see the director striving for the depth and complexity of characterization he ultimately achieved in the great films of the 1950s.”

Winchester 73

Directors · Genres · Noir · Westerns

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Going Through the Devil’s Doorway: The Early Westerns of Anthony Mann

  • April 30, 2012

“Mann’s 1950 threesome — The Devil’s Doorway, Winchester ’73, The Furies — was the most auspicious quantum jump by an American director since John Ford’s equivalent Americana triumvirate of 1939 (Stage Coach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk) lifted him into the major phase of his career. Yet Mann’s achievements seem destined to remain unappreciated and the director himself obscure.”

Persona

Directors · Essays

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Bergman’s Women: The Representation of Patriarchy and Class in Persona (1967) and Cries and Whispers (1972)

  • October 31, 2011

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Rich Boy”

Actors & Personalities · Directors

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Meet the Devil: Remembering John Huston

  • October 31, 2011

“Huston once described his job to John Milius like this: ‘You will confer with generals, you will dine at the table with kings, and you will sleep with titled women. All of this you will do while being dead broke. That’s what being a director is.’ Should we even feign surprise that when it came time to make The Bible he cast himself as the voice of the Almighty?

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