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The Canterbury Tales 1972
pasolini understands what chaucer’s tales contend with, and that many characterisations of the medieval have forgotten, misunderstood or simply ignored: that the presence of the heterodox is made essential by that of the orthodox. the faces in this are of the many, one gets the sense that pasolini is using the same brush piero della francesca used for the legend of the true cross, and the result is something that maintains the weight of the provincial and the timeless. crazy to think this is the only filmed adaptation proper of the tales. ever crazier to see the fourth doctor’s whole hog.
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I Saw the Devil 2010
if you want a film about serial killers, there are other films. if you want a film about the moral quandaries of vengeance, there are other films. if you want an engaging south korean thriller, there are other films. if you want a film where choi min-sik plays a deranged psychopath, there are other films. if you want an engaging south korean thriller about serial killers and the moral quandaries of vengeance where choi min-sik plays a deranged psychopath, there…
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Museum Hours 2012
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
— Roberto Bolaño, 2666
they are in a sense documentaries as well, collecting exact games, rituals and masquerades of his day but harvested together as if they were happening at the same time. hallucinations of the real, one might say, or perhaps they are a mixture of these tendencies: the allegorical and the…
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