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July 15, 2013 Film

The museum of cinema in Turin

I somehow imagine that all museums before 1990 were cheerless, unheated places run by men in tight weave and small

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July 15, 2013 Film

Ben Hecht: the craft of the ‘anonymous’ screenwriter

Even a cursory examination of Ben Hecht suggests a whirlwind of energy. His output was one long unchecked literary rampage

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July 15, 2013 Film / Thought

Cheap and sentimental things

The word ‘cheap’ and the word ‘sentimental’ aren’t generally part of a lexicon of praise. Both might be used to

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July 15, 2013 Film

Journey to Italy: Hollywood goes Neapolitan

De Sica’s  The Bicycle Thieves  and  Umberto D  maybe among the most famous examples of Italian neo-realism, but the films

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July 14, 2013 Film

Gaslight: the light of the mind

Like many of the pies in which David O. Selznick had his fat little fingers, George Cukor’s 1944  Gaslight  has

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July 14, 2013 Film

Richard Curtis: the Great British Myth Maker

A Richard Curtis film set in Middlesbrough is a cinematic oxymoron. Even Milton Keynes seems unlikely. Mainly because foppish glamour,

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