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  Did you enjoy being violent?

  09.05.10 | Permalink | Comments

  Yes, answers Noomi Rapace, Swedish star of the filmed trilogy Millennium. Here’s a nice interview with her, by UK’s Absolute Radio.
  Noomi interpreted Millennium’s noir hero Lisbeth Salander, a violent hacker with unusual computing experience and a woman with a past as victim of violence. The original title of the first novel was in fact “Men [...]

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  Basterds

  08.28.10 | Permalink | Comments

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  A few days ago I watched again Inglourious Basterds.
  What a masterpiece of mashup cinema! Only Tarantino is so able of mixing pieces of film history and rearranging them to form a unique tale. That’s it: unique story telling. Through a compelling art and master craft Tarantino builds a very well told story, which [...]

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  Crystal Plumage

  06.21.10 | Permalink | Comments

  The bird with the Crystal Plumage is a complicated title in English,

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  but wonderfully cryptic in Italian. It happens to be Dario Argento’s first title.
  A classic thriller, one of the first to develop many of the classic ideas of the serial killer franchise. A murder and a witness who remembers there’s one thing which [...]

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  Dear Vincent (Price)

  06.19.10 | Permalink | Comments

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  I will never forget The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971!) and its Vincent Price performance. I love Vincent Price, period. And this movie is probably precursor to lots of horror cliches, along with the baroque theme of what variation of the-murdering-scheme-we’re-using-today, recently taken to unprecedented “depths” by the Saw series.
  So today I was pretty [...]

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  Breathless

  06.08.10 | Permalink | Comments

  Philip French, film critic of The Guardian, reminds that it is now 50 year since Godard’s masterpiece of A bout de souffle (Breathless) opened (Breathless continues to shock and surprise 50 years on).

  What French writes is fascinating history of cinema. Read his story of Chabrol, Truffaut and Godard working together in the film:
  Claude Chabrol, [...]

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