Month: April, 2009
Sun 26 Apr 2009
Director: Anthony Asquith Country: United Kingdom Year: 1952 BACKGROUND Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1854. His mother was a successful poet and an Irish Nationalist, and his father was Ireland’s leading ear-and-eye surgeon. Oscar was educated first at Trinity College, Dublin, and later at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, he began [...]
Sun 19 Apr 2009
Ikiru
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Akira Kurosawa Country: Japan Year: 1952 “Occasionally, I think of my death… There is, I feel, so much more for me to do. Then I become thoughtful, not sad.” “Being an artist means not having to avert one’s eyes.” “So long as my pictures are hits I can afford to be unreasonable. Of course, [...]
Sun 12 Apr 2009
Häxan
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Benjamin Christensen Country: Denmark Year: 1922 BACKGROUND Benjamin Christensen was born in Denmark (That is what “Danish” means, right? A citizen of Denmark? Couldn’t they come up with a less confusing derivation than that? Denmarkians, perhaps? Denmarkites?) in 1879. His Wikipedia article is only four lines long, so we’re kickin’ it freestyle it this [...]
Sun 5 Apr 2009
Grand Illusion
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Jean Renoir Country: France Year: 1937 “To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’ You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making’.” [...]
