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Heart-Shaped World: “The Earrings of Madame de…
The Earrings of Madame de… has been called one of the perfect pictures of cinema. And it is amazing, a piece that is not just directed, not just choreographed, but sculpted in time and space, with...
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Review: A Matter of Time
[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] In his autobiography I Remember It Well, Vincente Minnelli registers a very pragmatic regret that his producer-partner Arthur Freed took such...
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MOD Movies: ‘The Big House,’ ‘5 Fingers,’‘Roadblock
The Big House: Triple Feature (Warner Archive) is a special edition for the MOD (manufacture-on-demand) line. The 1930 The Big House, directed by George Hill, is the original men-in-prison drama in...
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Blu-ray: ‘The Earrings of Madame de…’
[originally published in October 2013, this review has been revived to honor Danielle Darrieux, who died this week at the age of 100 – ed.] The European films of Max Ophuls are elaborate dances of...
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