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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Once Upon a Time
No movie comes closer to being the visual equivalent of a fairy tale than Beauty and the Beast (1946). Jean Cocteau had already achieved fame in his native France and throughout the world as a poet, playwright, artist, and avant-garde filmmaker. Then he did what must have seemed totally unexpected. He transformed a little-known fairy [...]
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
True to the Spirit
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) is a film that pleased almost no one when it was released. Truffaut fans felt it lacked the spontaneity and warmth of his previous films. Science fiction fans were puzzled by the lack of futuristic technology. Today we’re more sympathetic to the virtues of this unusual Truffaut movie, which was his first [...]