I think a comparison with David Lynch helps fix what is special about these films.
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The main Faustian story is sumptuously done but drags a bit - largely because of extended dialogue...
Long Live the Republic! is not an easy watch but it is as beautiful and energetic as...
Side by side with Myren’s performance, it is the visuals here that are stunning.
Musashi is shown as a guy who takes no bullshit but also sacrifices the pleasures of ordinary...
Director Ford is fond of long, close-up tracking shots over milieus like forest army camps, castle feasts...
The film is based on a novel by Jurek Becker, also the source for a 1999 film...
The Tony Hillerman books that are sources for this series create drama from the play off between...
There is something so distinctive about Kurosawa’s oblique style that it is difficult to define it.
Both Only Two Can Play and Carlton Browne of the F.O. are probably best seen as historical...
