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theFilmsaurus recommendations 10/27: Naruse, Corman, Welles
Today’s Year is 1964. Today’s Top Tier selection is Yearning (dir: Mikio Naruse)
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Tagged A Corner in Wheat, Black Narcissus, Brief Encounter, Chimes at Midnight, Chris Marker, D.W. Griffith, David Lean, Edgar Allen Poe, Emeric Pressburger, Frank Borzage, Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die!, Hideko Takamine, History is Made at Night, Jean-Luc Godard, L'argent, Leo McCarey, Macbeth, Make Way for Tomorrow, Meet Me in St. Louis, Michael Powell, Mikio Naruse, Orson Welles, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Roger Corman, Sans soleil, Seijun Suzuki, The Clock, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Masque of the Red Death, The Other Side of the Wind, The Small Back Room, The Taking of Power of Louis XIV, Vincente Minnelli, Week End, Yearning, Youth of the Beast
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Directors Who Can Do No Wrong #9: Orson Welles
From an auteurist standpoint, the great directors have the power to transform bad, lackluster, or cliched material into great art. But even the mightiest directors have had a few duds. Robert Altman’s Quintet is ignored by almost everyone; stalwart Fordians … Continue reading
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Tagged Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, Don Quixote, F for Fake, Mr. Arkadin aka Confidential Report, Orson Welles, Othello, The Dreamers, The Lady from Shanghai, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Other Side of the Wind, The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh, The Trial, Touch of Evil
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