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Had Hollywood not balked for nearly a decade in letting its first screenwriting superstar direct one of his stories, ‘Unfaithfully Yours’ might today be recorded as Sturges’ directorial debut from 1932 / 33. Instead, it remains the modern Moliere’s final treasure.
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A one-of-a-kind essay centered on art forgery and hoaxes that is built from spare parts, questionable coverage, obvious overdubbing, and outright bluff, ‘F for Fake’ is a masterwork most often hailed for its hijacking of documentary form to tease cinema’s capacity for making truth out of bullshit
by Spencer Parsons
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With loyalty to such cinematic emperors as Fellini, Pasolini, and Antonioni, the Criterion Collection’s devotion to post-war Italian masterpieces is serious business. Seriously buffo, comico, spiritoso in the case of neo-realist Pietro Germi’s ‘Divorzio all’Italiana’ (1962).
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All of the director’s classic themes and techniques are here, but ‘Kagemusha’ also ushered in a new period in Kurosawa’s style, one influenced by the countless hours, months, and years he spent painting imagined scenes from the movie as he waited dejectedly for funding to come in
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The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin’s being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949’s swiftly compelling ‘Thieves’ Highway’ is leavened somewhat by the fact that the 94-year-old director is still around to partake in the contemporary celebration of his dashing noir oeuvre
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