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A Man's Neck 1933
Harry Baur plays Commissaire Jules Maigret in Julien Duvivier's La tête d'un homme (1933), which made him the third Maigret in two years. Georges Simenon could whip them out even faster himself.
Half the time, the film is wildly vivid cinema with an active camera roving scenes, fascinating imagery, compositions, and editing. And then there are the dramatic exhanges that are as static and dull as a filmed stage play.
The qualities outweigh the shortcomings but it is perplexing. Not sure how to ascribe the discrepancies.
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Burden of Dreams 1982
Les Blank captures Werner Herzog filming Fitzcarraldo in his documentary Burden of Dreams.
The title seems to reflect the passion of Herzog to realize his vision of the story, despite the cost, pain, frustration, madness, and suffering required to make it happen, deep in the mountains and jungles of Peru, and at the core of Herzog's belief in his art and existence.
Fitzcarraldo is a fictionalized story inspired by a real man who, in the 1800s, managed to get a…
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Terminal USA 1993
Endowed with financing from PBS and the NEA, Jon Moritsugu crafted a film about the Japanese-American experience. Even at the time, Moritsugu and crew wondered if the grantees had seen any of his movies before, because when he delivered Terminal USA, it was a bit of a shock to the Public Broadcasting System and the National Endowment for the Arts.
For Moritsugu, this was by far the biggest budget he’d contended with, and so even though a lot of the…
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The Beastmaster 1982
Kodo and Podo, the ferrets, prove so good at thieving that they wind up stealing the show.
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