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Posted by on Jun 28, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 1 comment

“Lang is a mix of artist and pulp storyteller, pessimist and entertainer. As much as any other film director he found how to fuse high and low culture in the new medium of the cinema.” - The Permanent Magic of Fritz Lang, bfi.org.uk

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Loves of a Blonde

Posted by on Jun 21, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 1 comment

“Suddenly the ideologues are telling you this is decadent, these are four apes (the Beatles) escaping from the jungle. I thought I’m not such an idiot that I love this music, and suddenly these political ideologues were strangers.” - Miloš Forman

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Posted by on Jun 14, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 8 comments

“It addresses something I’ve always been profoundly interested in — what it means to be English... it is about bigger things than the war. It takes a longer view of history which was an extraordinarily brave thing for someone to do in 1943, at a time when history seemed to have disintegrated into its most helpless, impossible and unforgivable state.” - Stephen Fry

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The Lady Vanishes

Posted by on Jun 7, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 5 comments

“Watching The Lady Vanishes is like going into an attic and finding a jewel from another place, another time.” - Joe Valdez, thisdistractedglobe.com

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