Month: June, 2009
Sun 28 Jun 2009
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Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Fritz Lang
Country: Germany
Year: 1931
“Lang seems always to have been interested in what happens to individuals who come up against the larger power of organisations, bureaucracies, criminal networks — all the modern apparatus of surveillance and control. Almost always these individuals are destroyed by the encounter: they don’t find justice even if they have the [...]
Sun 21 Jun 2009
Loves of a Blonde
Category: Janus Challenge
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Director: Miloš Forman
Country: Czechoslovakia
Year: 1965
“I know this sounds so little, and not serious enough, but I believe that I have to have fun. We all have to have fun – me, the actors, the cameraman, everybody should feel as if we are making a home movie, because that is the only way to open the [...]
Mon 15 Jun 2009
Posies in Brooklyn, 06.12.2009
Category: Video
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Sun 14 Jun 2009
Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1943
“The Archers took the class satire and social consciousness found in the best work of Noel Coward — as well as in the original David Low cartoon whence the ‘Colonel Blimp’ character originated — and turned those elements into something uniquely theirs, a film very wry and [...]
Sun 7 Jun 2009
The Lady Vanishes
Category: Janus Challenge
3 Comments
“What most surprised me about this early British offering from Hitchcock was not that it is a superbly crafted suspense-thriller, which indeed it is, but that it also offers a hefty dose of humor, much of which had me laughing out loud.”Thomas Scalzo, notcoming.com
“Watching The Lady Vanishes is like going into an attic and finding [...]
