The Con Man and the Happy Ending — 84 years later, The Lady Eve shins among the glimmering ghosts of a now-decayed Hollywood golden age. Preston Sturges’ interplay between slapstick, romance, and noir follows Charles (Henry Fonda), a young affluent ophidiologist, who rapidly falls for the scheming-yet-wistful swindler, Jean (Barbara Stanwick). Set primarily aboard a ship sailing from South America to New York, a con ruined by romance (or perhaps the inverse) takes Charles and Jean on a disorienting passage…
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The Great White Silence 1924
a medium with no humble beginnings. the end of the earth captured and colonized by film. history is made for celluloid
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Old Joy 2006
tension in even the most relaxing settings, tension when nothing’s directly there.
yet it’s a feeling that the nostalgic affection of past friendship attempts to overshadow, as drops of fond memory seep into the lives of even those who have grown furthest apart.
a man on the cusp of fatherhood, a man lonesome and unbound. the city, the forest. the difference?
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