What is the Giallo about?
Coming to know things in Argento’s Tenebrae Research in Profondo Rosso:
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The Seventh Victim, Mark Robson, 1943 Il gatto nero (aka Demons 6: De Profundis), Luigi Cozzi, 1989 Blood and Roses, Roger Vadim, 1960 Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, Seth Holt, 1971 Burnt Offerings, Dan...
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Screenshot from The Lives of Others The translations of Jack’s manuscript in The Shining
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Adaptation, Spike Jonze, 2002 Bernie, Richard Linklater, 2011 The Disorderly Orderly, Frank Tashlin, 1964 La Cérémonie, Claude Chabrol, 1995 La Route de Corinthe, Claude Chabrol, 1967 Mazes and...
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21 Jump Street, Phil Lord & Chris Miller, 2012 Argo, Ben Affleck, 2012 Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland, 2012 Berlin Alexanderplatz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980 Day of the Warrior, Andy...
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Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, 1982 Fulltime Killer, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai, 2001 Blind, Frederick Wiseman, 1986 Juvenile Court, Frederick Wiseman, 1973 Meat, Frederick Wiseman, 1976 Welfare,...
View ArticleUsing ImageJ to Re-Visualize The Iron Giant
[apologies to the typosphere for forsaking the Selectric for some o’ this digital ink. I’ll soon make it up to you with typewriter-movie-eye-candy.] Intro This post describes my efforts to use...
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as always, click on the images for a larger view Death and the Compass, Alex Cox, 1992 Edge City, Alex Cox, 1980 El Patrullero, Alex Cox, 1991 Elephant , Alan Clarke, 1989 Fear City, Abel Ferrara, 1984...
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Ann Vickers, John Cromwell, 1933 Bad Boys, Michael Bay, 1995 Bad Boys II, Michael Bay, 2003 Blow Out, Brian De Palma, 1981 Caravaggio, Derek Jarman, 1986 Cimarron, Wesley Ruggles, 1931 Consolation...
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I Remember Mama, George Stevens, 1948 Obsession, Brian De Palma, 1976 Penny Serenade, George Stevens, 1941 Série Noire, Alain Corneau, 1979 The Fury, Brian De Palma, 1978 The Hot Spot, Dennis Hopper,...
View ArticleWestern Roundup
In September, I watched 50 Westerns. Here’s one of them: I’ve been trying to keep my viewing habits more focused this year, picking a director or an actress to watch for a month. No problem with...
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3×5 notecards for my favorite films that I saw for the first time last year.
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Over on Twitter, @chopperfireball asks: Someone shouting, "We got company!" is a classic action movie cliche. Does anyone know the earliest film to use that line? — Exploding Helicopter...
View ArticleNicholas Ray Quiz
Over on twitter dot com @mimbale asked me about what my summed frames process would look like in the case of director Nicholas Ray. But first, a quiz: can you match up (any of) the frames below to the...
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