The location photography by William Daniels is so gorgeous in this film. I tried to capture establishing shots or shots with very little action in the foreground to highlight his amazing work on the architecture of New York.
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With a title as flamboyant as Born to Kill you’d think it was an over-the-top Wellesian exercise in gloom and doom, but the amazing thing about the movie, with one of the darkest plots in all of Film Noir, is how restrained Robert Wise remains throughout the chaos. According to Eddie Muller on the film’s [...]
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All Films Noir were imbued with an Existential Angst that had been intensified by World War II and the inability for the U.S. to live up to all of the optimism that crushing the Axis powers had generated at home. However the style had an earlier origin in Pre War Germany with the Expressionism of [...]
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This film feels like two different movies stitched together and brought back to life. The underwater photography, done by James Havens, is beautiful. Lilting, dream like camera movements, with a strange eye that paints the water as a completely different world from the surface. Bubbles, oblique shadows, and balletic physical action blend to create a [...]
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I sought out Meshes of the Afternoon when I read how much of an influence Maya Deren was on David Lynch’s work. It’s a beautiful fourteen minute experimental film that chronicles a nameless woman (played by the writer/director Deren) as she follows Death through her dreams and into reality. It was filmed for just a [...]
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