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Él 1953
From the opening scene that fetishizes the Maunday Thursday ritual foot washing (note that closeup of the priest kissing the cleansed appendage) to the climax in which the hero attempts to strangle the family priest, Bunuel's noirish tale of a wealthy husband's jealous obsession with his beautiful and innocent wife is a wild, sometimes surreal and absurdist ride. Bunuel scores points against a Church that enables a husband's abuse and gaslights the victim. Arturo de Cordova shines at gradually building…
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Sword Devil 1965
Kenji Misumi's Sword Trilogy, screening this week at MoMA, is a discovery for me. I started with the final film, Raised by a foster father, Henpei ("Dog-Boy}, played by Japan's James Dean, Raizo Ichikawa, is an outcast in his village due to his questionable birth. Although he has a natural talent as a gardener that attracts the attention of the daimyo's servants (the lord is going gaga and a lovely garden would soothe his troubled mind), Henpei soon demonstrates other…
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A Mistake 2024
Moviegoers who only think of Elizabeth Banks as flighty Effie Trinket (“May the odds ever be in your favor”) in The Hunger Games films will be astonished by the actress’s bravura turn as a skilled Auckland surgeon facing the consequences of a split-second decision made in the operating room. Adapted by Christine Jeffs from Carl Shuker’s 2019 novel, the film opens with Elizabeth Taylor (Banks) called in to perform an emergency laparoscopic procedure on Lisa Williams (Acacia O’Connor), a 29-year-old…
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