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December 3, 2020
There are many filmmakers I love, but only a few that I hold in awe.  At the top of my list are the great Japanese minimalist Yasujiro Ozu, and the extraordinary British maximalist team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Powell and Pressburger created a series of remarkable films throughout the forties and into the...
Right from the opening chords that sound like a flock of vultures being heckled by a sarcastic mockingbird, you know you’re in a western unlike any other.  Welcome to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (available on Amazon).  Directed by Italian master Sergio Leone with a game changing score by Ennio Morricone, this is the western...
There is art and then there is guilty pleasure.  And King Vidor’s version of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead will never be confused for the former. If you will allow me my prejudices, I’m no fan of the work or philosophy of Ayn Rand.  With this in mind there should be absolutely no reason why I would want...

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