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Notorious

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Oct 15, 2001 Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller features two of Hollywood’s greatest stars, rendering their characters' grand romance in all its passion and perversity.

Oct 15, 2001 The French director’s crime film conveys both the flow and the form of the prison experience.

The Lady Eve

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Oct 15, 2001 Preston Sturges’s beloved comedy provides insights into the way Hollywood formulas work on us.

Aug 20, 2001 Before Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson there was Carl Th. Dreyer. The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately understood yet took...

Aug 20, 2001 Carl Dreyer considers the work of art’s soul in this excerpt from Dreyer in Double Reflection.

Gertrud

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Aug 20, 2001 Carl Dreyer’s modern tragedy eschews melodrama, striking a balance between suffering and triviality.

Ordet

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Aug 20, 2001 The strangeness of Ordet is something that no number of viewings, God willing, will rub off. I want to stress this strangeness. That Ordet is a great film, one of the greatest ever made, only a rash or foolish person...

Aug 20, 2001 Carl Dreyer’s 17th-century period piece leaves all major questions frustratingly unresolved yet vibrantly open, quivering and radiant with life and meaning.

May 12, 2001 Bertrand Tavernier’s adaptation is the story of a saintly madman in a world where the concepts of good and evil have no meaning.

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