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Night and Fog has a claim as the best documentary of all time.
There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I'd like to.
I've put up another set of short reviews on my tenth-rate film blog. Read if you care. In short: Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)--I know people love this film,.
I know we are reentering the New Gilded Age, what with the economic inequality and union busting and facial hair. But I'm not sure we need to go this far..
Some late Georges Méliès this week, from 1912
More short reviews on my pointless film blog. Reviewed since my last update: The Dallas Buyers Club, Vallee, 2013 (OK, but cliche on cliche) To the Wonder, Malick, 2012 (OMG.
Is there a pre-atomic era film about the world ending?
One of the great women of film noir has passed. She's perhaps best known for her work in Lady in the Lake, which is famous primarily for being shot entirely.