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A documentary from Werner Herzog called Into the Inferno seemed worth catching at the Rome Festival of Cinema. I mean, volcanoes and Herzog?! Surely there would be people sailing over seas of lava in special […]
What? Bridget Jones without Daniel Cleaver? Should I take this chance? I am a huge fan of Bridget Jones and I did immensely enjoy the first two films. But film number three ? In my […]
Animators are the truest auteurs of the film world. In complete control, they can bring their personal visions direct to the screen. Their ideas do not have to be filtered through other people and appear […]
Orson Welles made Othello—the first purely “cinematic” version of Shakespeare— between 1949 and 1952. The golden boy director of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles was, by age 34, in exile from Hollywood. Othello’s bizarre production history […]