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Classic Film Review: James Joyce by John Huston, “The Dead”(1987)
You don’t have to get old to truly appreciate John Huston’s elegiac ode to Belle Epoque Ireland and his farewell to the cinema. Wintry, wistful, funereal and poetic, James Joyce’s “The Dead” becomes a simple, short and beautiful postcard from … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Almodóvar Ponders Death and the Lives Preceding it from “The Room Next Door”
In his mid ’70s, it’s only natural that the great Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar should turn his attentions to reflecting on lives lived, and questions of how one wants life to end with his latest film. But in boiling down … Continue reading
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