View image This is not Bresson's pipe! I'm always intrigued when critics and academics try to characterize themselves -- or the appeal of something they like -- primarily in opposition to something else that they don't like. Or vice-versa. I'm…
View image From Raymond Ogilvie, happyreflex: This is really the second shot, following a brief bit of above-cloud photography. Let's not be too picky. It starts with a TV set turning on. A suitable enough opening that many films have…
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From: Jerry Roberts, Birmingham, AL
View image "Zabriskie Point" -- an Antonioni movie on the cover of LOOK magazine in 1969: "Had he violated the Mann Act when he staged a nude love-in in a national park? Does the film show an "anti-American" bias? As…
View image Harriet Andersson in Ingmar Bergman's "Summer with Monika" (1953). US tagline: "A Picture for Wide Screens and Broad Minds." Jonathan Rosenbaum puts another nail in Ingmar Bergman's coffin in today's New York Times ("Scenes From an Overrated Career").…
From: Dave Shaefer, Baltimore, MD
View image View image From: Andy Horbal, Mirror/Stage: "Army of Shadows" actually begins with an epigram: "Unhappy memories! Yet I welcome you… you are my long-lost youth… " Perhaps a French person would immediately recognize the film's subsequent opening shot…
"Notice it has a point at the top for ease of entry. It's just the right shape for the human mouth.... And it's even curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier." That's Ray. He's from…
Q. In your review of "The Simpsons Movie," you mention that it is already voted as the 166th best film of all time on the Internet Movie Database and ask, "Do you suppose somehow the ballot box got stuffed by…
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