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I’ve been rewatching Phantom Thread quite a bit lately. And my viewings have been greatly enhanced by the observation that Anderson may have purposefully tried to simulate the look …
On Cinema
While perusing a new book on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson (“The Master,” “There Will Be Blood”), I came across an observation on the relationship between fathers and …
On Cinema
Unless we’re watching a motion picture at the movie theater or enjoying one at home with a surround speaker system, we can forget the role sound plays in the …
From the Mouth of
Jean Cocteau, the father of cinematography (the term he preferred to “cinema”), hoped the future of motion pictures would become more creative, more personal, as the mechanic means of …
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The glut of sci-fi and fantasy pictures showing on more than half the screens at your local cinema rolled off the belts following the Hollywood notion that these pictures …