Yeah right!” On the level of form, this interlude has a practical effect: it injects levity into an otherwise intense ...

Gone with the Wind Two brothel madams (or as close as Hollywood dared get to them), one a lurid gash of pornographic pink throbbing against William Cameron Menzies’ mourning-black backdrop of charred ...

(Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010) Early in Black Swan, artistic director Thomas Leroy concludes his personal synopsis of Swan Lake with the declaration that only in death does its troubled heroine find ...

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(Takashi Miike, Japan, 2010) Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins is bound to be regarded by some as its director’s most mature film to date—mistakenly so. It’s true that particularly in its truncated, ...

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Back in the day, Tucson photographer Bob Broder used to string for The Arizona Republic. Eric Kroll, another local—and former Taschen book editor—recently unearthed a stash of negatives Broder shot on ...

(Warner Archive, $18.95) As John Ford said to a teenage Spielberg: “Where’s the horizon?” In Philip Kaufman’s 1974 film it rises almost to the top of the frame, an unforgiving expanse governed by ...

(Andrew Bujalski, U.S., 2009) There’s a memorable sequence midway through Andrew Bujalski’s new feature, Beeswax, one that takes the measure of the writer-director’s talent. Jeannie (Tilly Hatcher), ...

1. Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray, 1954 2. Mouchette Robert Bresson, 1967 3. Laura Otto Preminger, 1944 4. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick, 1975 5. Muriel Alain ...

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