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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Crystal Plumage
The bird with the Crystal Plumage is a complicated title in English, Image via Wikipedia 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 … Continue reading
Dear Vincent (Price)
Image via Wikipedia 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 … Continue reading
Breathless
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 … Continue reading
The Son’s Room
Image via Wikipedia A little gem of a scene from Nanni Moretti‘s The Son’s Room (La stanza del figlio), Palme d’Or at Cannes. The film will be all about the reality of a sudden death, of its pain. And of … Continue reading
La prima cosa bella
Mogol playing football. Image by Getty Images via @daylife Must be the age. I’d have never admitted I like this song when I was young(er). Still, it’s a classic to sing under the shower or while driving. It has a … Continue reading