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Film
Tobey Maguire portrays a thunderstruck Peter Parker Spider-Man 2; he staggers through the film perpetually on the edge of tears, a hero in crisis,...
Film
When conceiving of The Filmstruck Cram, a priority was certainly to highlight the site’s role in making available the filmographies of iconic directors: Kurosawa,...
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Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg is exactly the style of film I wouldn’t reach for if not for the ease of the Filmstruck streaming service....
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In a coincidence that highlights the vitality of a service like Filmstruck, a print of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low actually screened in my...
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Many years before the Coen Brother’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, before No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, A Serious Man, and...
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Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter was a critical bomb that alienated audiences when it was released in 1955, mostly because no one...
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Dial M for Murder, which Alfred Hitchcock adapted with precision from a hit play by writer Frederick Knott, was not a film the director...
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Unlike other films from The Filmstruck Cram series, such as Shogun Assassin or The Long Good Friday, Brian De Palma’s Sisters is not (at...
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The Candidate is both prescient in its portrayal of campaign politics and entirely quaint in its level of cynicism, the latter of which is...
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Despite it’s well-deserved standing as one of the all-time great British films, The Long Good Friday isn’t easy to purchase on the other side...
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Luis Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert is the kind “comedy” which provokes more introspection than laughter. It’s a riot of ideas about faith and...
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“When cut across the neck, a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say. I’d always hoped to cut someone like that someday,...
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1967’s Branded to Kill can be maddening. The film’s renegade director, Seijun Suzuki — who was fired by Nikkatsu in part because he turned in...
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'Chungking Express' deserves to be cherished — yet by the film’s own logic, it seems just as likely to disappear while no one is...
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There are certain elements of Dracula, or as it was titled in America, Horror of Dracula, which probably garner ironic laughter at revival screenings....
Blog
Back in June of 2017, Ciara Wardlow over at Film School Rejects made a grim assessment of Netflix’s streaming library: Of the 1,350 Drama...
Film Festival
It’s too inexact (and politically fraught) to compare Jake Hannaford, the unraveling fictional director at the center of The Other Side of the Wind,...
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The ostensible premise of Sunny Chan’s Men on the Dragon, the centerpiece film at the 2018 New York Asian Film Festival, is simple: four...
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Ogami, one half of the odd-couple detective pairing in The Blood of Wolves, is a familiar figure. He has leathery skin, unkempt hair, and...