I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week. |
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Page 274
... medium's recording obligations " - as if natural laws were prescriptions and commands , to be followed and obeyed ... medium . It's as if the medium were predestined ( and eager ) to exhibit them . " The " medium " has become such an ...
... medium's recording obligations " - as if natural laws were prescriptions and commands , to be followed and obeyed ... medium . It's as if the medium were predestined ( and eager ) to exhibit them . " The " medium " has become such an ...
Page 281
... medium " ; they are testifying to the director's success in involving them in the world he has created on the screen . Yes , the ocean is a miserable mistake in Hamlet , but in Castellani's Romeo and Juliet the Friar's little outdoor ...
... medium " ; they are testifying to the director's success in involving them in the world he has created on the screen . Yes , the ocean is a miserable mistake in Hamlet , but in Castellani's Romeo and Juliet the Friar's little outdoor ...
Page 284
... medium " when he turns the great Emma Gramatica into an angelic old rattlebrain flying through the skies of Miracle in Milan ( never mentioned in the book ) ? Is he " obeying " these " basic properties of the medium " when he takes a ...
... medium " when he turns the great Emma Gramatica into an angelic old rattlebrain flying through the skies of Miracle in Milan ( never mentioned in the book ) ? Is he " obeying " these " basic properties of the medium " when he takes a ...
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Zeitgeist and Poltergeist Or Are Movies Going | 3 |
Fantasies of the ArtHouse Audience | 31 |
The Glamour of Delinquency | 44 |
Copyright | |
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