Cinema is Dope

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Saturday, August 30, 2008

I don’t know if it’s the best WWI film ever made, but it certainly is one of the most haunting. With Kirk Douglas as Col. Dax and Stanley Kubrick behind the helm, this film takes patriotic grit and the hell of war and asks the timeless question on the sanity of mankind always waging wars with itself. At least that is my take on the film and it certainly is a work that is open to multiple interpretations.

Amazon.com Link:
::: Buy the Paths of Glory DVD
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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Friday, August 29, 2008

One of the great all-time directors is Max Ophuls whose films always seemed immaculately dressed with a symphony of sweeping details, rich colors and lush lighting. Like the great artists of cinema, every frame of his films breathed with his distinct vision of reality, illusion and fantasy.

Sadly many of his works have yet to really see a proper restored release on video. Luckily, Lola Montes was restored this year. It first screened at Cannes and screens again at the 35th Telluride Film Festival. As you can tell from the stills above, this new version certainly leaves all other versions looking like a VHS copy of a VHS copy of a VHS copy of a VHS copy found in a dumpster.

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Darkly lit and moody image of Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell lurking down the stairs in one of the best movies of cinema, The Night of the Hunter.

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Kazuko Wakasugi is O-Den in Dokufu Takahashi Oden (A Wicked Woman).

This film will be screening at the 8th NIFFF (Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival) for their Nobuo Nakagawa retrospective (view here).

Japanese Cinema:
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Nippon Cinema
::: Outcast Cinema
::: Ryuganji

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One of my favorite images from this film.

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