For a literal minded viewer watching Buñuel’s Viridiana for its surface content is to miss great many gems hidden away and the key to the film is what is unexplained. ( refer the section on parable). His position in terms of moving pictures is what Dali represented in static pictures. Dali would show a limp [...]
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Viridiana-1961
Posted in Spanish films, tagged anarchy, Exterminating Angel, L'age d'Or, Surrealism on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greed- 1924
Posted in Hollywood films, Uncategorized, tagged Best 100 films, silent film, Frank Norris, Erich von Stroheim on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Directed by Erich von Stroheim and starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin, Joan Standing and Jack Curtis, ‘Greed’ is one of the greatest films ever made. It is a silent film and a morality play: it holds a mirror to our own psyche and though we [...]
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