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Profondo Rosso
I’ve never attended a séance or been to any conference on the supernatural but imagine them to be harmless affairs. A few entertaining tricks by the performers on stage, raised (albeit hollow) hopes...
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The Machine that Kills Bad People
The motif of a genie, or djinn if you prefer, granting the lucky owner of some mcguffin or other a series of wishes is one that runs wild through world culture. What makes these tales all the more...
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
It’s a lot of fun when cinema throws up acting pairs that clearly love working together and get to experiment with different performances many times over the course of a career. William Powell and...
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
We’ve all experienced terrible holidays in foreign locales. Cockroaches the size of mice scurrying across the floor, construction work starting up at 6am right outside the window, ‘cultural cuisine’...
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Divorce Italian Style
In these days of drive-in, no fault divorces it seems rather quaint that a husband in a loveless (at least from his point of view) marriage cannot merely serve the requisite papers, work out a monthly...
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Bitter Rice
How sweet it is to be a fan of Film Noir, to sit down of an evening to watch a Neo-Realist picture, a good one at that, and find as the reels unspool you’ve stumbled into gritty crime territory. How’s...
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The Visitor
You can almost imagine the scene as it played out, no doubt under the influence of hallucinogens and booze, in Rome some time in early 1978. Fellini’s cameraman on 8 1/2 looking to become a director...
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