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Drunken Angel

Different but similar Drunken Angel holds a unique position in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, being a sort of bridge between his lesser-known early films and his much more famous mid-career films. The… more →

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Drunken Angel — 9 comments

ZC wrote 1 month ago: Different but similar Drunken Angel holds a unique position in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, being … more →

Tags: Toshirô Mifune, Cinema, Japan, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Drunken Angel, Japanese cinema, Stephen Prince, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

The Big Sleep — 9 comments

ZC wrote 1 month ago: Losing her cool Recently made the effort to indulge in another pleasure of the film noir variet … more →

Tags: Cinema, American, film noir, The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Gender, Lauren Bacall

Mildred Pierce — 5 comments

ZC wrote 2 months ago: Surrounded Mildred Pierce is a good example of a film that demands a particular kind of reading, no … more →

Tags: Cinema, film noir, Mildred Pierce, Michael Curtiz, Joan Crawford, Women, sexism, murder

Blood of the Beasts — 6 comments

ZC wrote 2 months ago: "Smile for the spiked hammer!" Screening Georges Franju’s Blood of the Beasts in a c … more →

Tags: Cinema, French, Marxism, Blood of the Beasts, Economics, Georges Franju, slaughterhouse, Meat, Paris

A Look at Gilda — 5 comments

ZC wrote 8 months ago: Like the previous entry on Pan’s Labyrinth, Gilda is another film that is all about sight. Bu … more →

Tags: Gilda, Rita Hayworth, Voyeur, watching, Glenn Ford, Power


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