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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
2024
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he’s known ...

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Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
2024 23 min
We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the screenwriter, and especially Jack Nicholson the director. ...

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Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film
2023 29 min
Lenny Bruce’s depiction on film did not start or end with Bob Fosse’s Lenny (1974). Through these other often offbeat cinematic ...

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It’s a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
2023 98 min
Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo ...

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The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon’s Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
2022 21 min
Between One Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Godfather (1972), Marlon Brando appeared in twelve feature films. The actor called this period his ...

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Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
2022 18 min
A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema, and how these “codes” (in partnership ...

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The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
2022 15 min
Otto Preminger wasn’t only one of the most famous directors of classic Hollywood. He was a presence, a brand, and the only one who rivaled ...

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Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
2022 20 min
What do the movies First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s have in common? One man with a clear and curious thematic focus, that’s what. ...

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Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky
2022 26 min
John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the “king of the underdogs,” owing to his having directed both Rocky ...

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La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
2022 25 min
Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead ...

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Faultline
2022 154 min
A ten-year drought brings local ranches to the brink of disaster. The search for Bert Neville takes its toll on Rail and Mitra. They break up and ...