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Classic Film Review: Cocteau Kink? “Les parents terribles — The Terrible Parents,” aka “The Storm Within”(1948)
One of the most praised French films of its day, Jean Cocteau’s 1948 dark comedy “Les parents terribles” still summons a chuckle or two and a cineaste’s appreciation of its compact, concentrated mise en scene-focused compositions, cinematography and editing. Its … Continue reading
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Tagged books, cocteau, film, film-criticism, literature, paris, postwar-french-cinema, welles, writing
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Documentary Review — “Garbo: Where Did You Go?” fills in Gaps in Greta Garbo’s Story
Some decades ago, I was ensconed in the archives of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, researching one of the university’s most famous alumni for a news article appreciation of his life and film career on the 100th anniversary of … Continue reading
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Tagged clarence-brown, cukor, dietrich, film, garbo, joan-crawford, movies, pop-culture, Reviews, welles
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