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Nanook of the North & Deep Hearts

Had the opportunity to take in a piece of “ethnographic” history today: Robert Gardner’s Deep Hearts. The film is well-known not for being a particularly early documentary (made in ’79) but f… more →

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Nanook of the North & Deep Hearts

ZC wrote 1 month ago: Had the opportunity to take in a piece of “ethnographic” history today: Robert Gardner’s Deep … more →

Tags: 1920s Cinema, Cinema, Culture, Deep Hearts, Documentary, Ethnography, Nanook of the North, Robert Gardner, Robet Flaherty

A Sentence on Ali: Fear Eats The Soul

ZC wrote 2 months ago: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the few real badasses of cinema, created in Ali: Fear Eats The Soul … more →

Tags: PhotoEssays, Cinema, german, Framing, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ali, Fear Eats The Soul, Germany

A Sentence on How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

ZC wrote 2 months ago: "Dibs on a thigh!" How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman humorously and ironically tells a tal … more →

Tags: One-Sentence Reviews, Cinema, French, Cannibalism, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, Natives

Chinatown — 4 comments

ZC wrote 3 months ago: In case you didn't know it was a throw-back The famous line from Chinatown comes when legendary … more →

Tags: Point Of View, Cinema, Noir, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, chinatown, Faye Dunaway, nose, John Huston

A Sentence on The Exorcist

ZC wrote 3 months ago: Girl in angelic white, "Damian" the priest in black Through impressive use of color, textu … more →

Tags: One-Sentence Reviews, Cinema, Horror, the exorcist, Exorcism, William Friedkin

A Sentence on American Graffiti

ZC wrote 4 months ago: “Brew? Oh, liquor. Uh, yeah. Liquor…” A delightfully unpretentious and hilarious nostalgia pie … more →

Tags: One-Sentence Reviews, American Graffiti, George Lucas

ZPG on DVD Tomorrow

Screaming Blue Reviews wrote 5 months ago: The penalty for birth is death! 1972’s ZPG: Zero Population Growth, perhaps the most “fo … more →

Tags: film, DVD, Science Fiction, ZPG, Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, zero population growth, overpopulation, Dystopia

Sydney Pollack: 1934 - 2008 — 2 comments

Screaming Blue Reviews wrote 5 months ago: Legendary American filmmaker dies of cancer. Sydney Pollack, the Oscar-winning American actor-produc … more →

Tags: film, General, DVD, george clooney, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman