April 21, 2012.Reading time 11 minutes.
“I’m sure you’ll find this amusing, but I’m afraid of the dark.” Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) in Klute, 1971, dir. Alan J. Pakula Anyone working in movies has influences. I certainly have quite a few. Spielberg and […]
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March 16, 2012.Reading time 8 minutes.
Is there a better decade for film than the 1970s? Feel free to try to convince me otherwise, but I doubt you’ll have much luck. Taken as a whole, the films of the 70s combine into a dazzling, divergent whole that challenges and delights, devastates and uplifts, while also remaining extremely relevant many years later. […]
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