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The Silence of the L...
From: Jerry Roberts, Birmingham, AL
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…
From: Nick Faust, Evansville, IN
View image Some of the best things I've read about Ingmar Bergman's place in cinema, written since his death (UPDATED 8/01/07): E-mails to Roger Ebert from filmmakers and writers including David Mamet, Paul Schrader, Sally Potter, Haskell Wexler, Paul Theroux,…
Click to blow up image From "Blow-Up": A blow-up image of... what? “Until the film is edited, I have no idea myself what it will be about. And perhaps not even then. Perhaps the film will only be a mood,…
