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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum: A Cineaste’s Performance
Kenji Mizoguchi achieved the sublime with this structurally complex portrait of artistic ambition and female subjugation.
Breathless Then and Now
The opening of Breathless is “unprecedented,” in that we never learn what route brought Michel Poiccard to the Vieux Port of Marseille, where he surveys the future from the very edge of France. This first shot strikes a match to touch off an oil …
The Romance of Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné’s theatrical spectacle set in early nineteenth-century Paris is an operatic work about passion and artifice.