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Corliss's perverse "Top 25 Horror Movies" list

View image Unimaginable horror. Now this is how to make a list. Richard Corliss writes for Time magazine, a mainstream publication, but that doesn't prevent him from slipping in those inspired, idiosyncratic Corli-cues™ of his. (I just made up that…

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Kirk/Spock and Dumbledore

View image Richard Harris as one version of Dumbledore, from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." First, let's get the quote right. When asked if the "Harry Potter" series character, Prof. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, a proponent of love…

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Film noir: Carved in black & white

View image Gloria Grahame in Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat." A film noir woodcut by Guy Budziak. "The term itself is vague. For German Expressionism was less a unified style than an attitude, a state of mind." -Horst Uhr, introduction,…

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The evolution of a hat

View image Figure #1. View image Figure #2. (My final contribution to the Close-Up Blog-a-thon at the House Next Door, which just wrapped.) Warning: This post (and the short film montage/hommage I put together to accompany it, above) may contain…

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Close Up: The movie

Words are linear. Movies not so much, even though they are encoded onto strips of celluloid or served up as streams or spirals of digital bits.