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Film, and other tricks of the light. Also wolves.
Gone to Blu€sk¥ (see pinned post)

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LITTLE DORRIT AND NO TATTYCORAM
"With Charles Dickens you are never far away from a haunting."
Dickens' satirical masterpiece on film, focussing on Christine Edzard's six hour 1987 film and the BBC TV 2008 adaptation.
https://t.co/C3VX9kNCkb

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Bit gratuitous, this.
Plimsoll invented the Plimsoll Line, not topless pole dancing.

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LOVE IN A BOX
Gifts and enchantment in "Le Quai des Brumes" (1937). Dir: Marcel Carné. Stars: Michelle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Pierre Brasseur. DOP: Eugen Schüfftan.
https://t.co/Il2xBVUUzT

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UNTIL THE END OF THE WORD
Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities (1973),
'[A] tender European subversion of the Hollywood road movie, offers a catalogue of the inadequacy of both words and images to communicate needs and desires.'
https://t.co/nG1eOCM3mX

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SNOWFLAKE - IT'S A WONDERFUL WIFE
From December 2018. Ideal Christmas films (no, not that one) including Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1946 post-occupation thriller, 'Quai des Orfèvres'.

https://t.co/ndWovXX98i

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SHADOW OF A PREJUDICE
Sinister stereotypes in E. Elias Merhige‘s SHADOW OF A VAMPIRE, (2000).
“What is insurmountable is the preposterous characterisation of Murnau (John Malkovich) which does no service to the film, even in its own terms.”
https://t.co/6yp44MrYTp

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TO HIDE FROM THE ROARING WORLD.
Love, Sorrow, and Going to The Pictures in 1920s London.
​Patrick Hamilton’s great London epic of everyday people, TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY.
https://t.co/HVfAGbmkCW

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ALSATIANS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
“Animals came from over the horizon. They belonged there and here. Likewise they were mortal and immortal.” John Berger.
https://t.co/r9Xf3mackR

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LAST TANGO IN SAN SEBASTIAN
Film sound, Louise Brooks, and Augusto Genina’s 'Prix de Beauté'.
https://t.co/bmn1PmAExo

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BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Lean, 1945)
'Laura demands brandy, writing paper, and the postponement of closing time from the kindly Beryl with just sufficient entitled curtesy to obtain what she wants and with minimum eye contact.'

https://t.co/Lp9YlYv0Y8

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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES on screen
Adaptations of Conan Doyle’s spooky Dartmoor-set Sherlock Holmes chiller, including the Soviet Lenfilm version with Vasili Livanov and Granada TV’s starring Jeremy Brett.
https://t.co/aG3yaYE91c

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OF HUMAN BONDAGE (Hughes, Hathaway, 1964)
⭐️ Laurence Harvey & Kim Novak

"Philip is as obsessed with Mildred as Scotty was with Madeline. Of course he is — she’s Kim Novak."
https://t.co/tMsZ93cXd2

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LION HEARTS AND MONKEY BUSINESS
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
“Julie represents an utterly different sensibility from the stuffy, sexually repressed, England of deferential servants and stale wasp-ravaged cakes in steamy café windows.”
https://t.co/YkRQx0fNl2

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OUT ON THE STAIRS
Dresses and spaces in “Mädchen in Uniform” (1931), Leontine Sagan's passionate boarding school drama starring Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda and Erica Mann and adapted from the play by Christa Winsloe.
https://t.co/423HD6iNwq

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LOVE IN A BOX
Gifts and enchantment in "Le Quai des Brumes" (1937). Dir: Marcel Carné. Stars: Michelle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Pierre Brasseur. DOP: Eugen Schüfftan.
https://t.co/Il2xBVUUzT

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PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
Eben: If she had made it to the lighthouse she might have been saved. Isn’t that so?
Eke: Yeah. [pause] But she didn’t make it.

William Dieterle's haunted artist New York fairy tale.
https://t.co/Vmvaq8Nabt