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Double Feature: Sans Soleil and Cameraperson

August 24, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

“Everything interested him.” These words are spoken by the unseen narrator early on in Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. The “him” of the sentence is essentially Marker, though the speaker always refers […]

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Uh … 3 ½? — Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

April 13, 2018by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

The Introduction When I set about, in July of 2015, to watch all the major films by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (known affectionately as “Joe”), the thought crossed my […]

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A Poem for Halloween

October 31, 2017by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

This Is the Cobra’s Hood

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Double Feature: Animatedreams

May 19, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The hoariest of selling points for motion pictures is their resemblance to dreams. Hollywood, in particular, has gotten a great deal of mileage over the years out of the word […]

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Double Feature: The Trial and Alphaville

April 21, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard presented their visions of sclerotic authoritarianism just a few years apart, with the American director entering the final phase of his filmmaking career and the […]

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Light Unchained: My 10 Favorite Buñuel Movies

February 1, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Octavio Paz has said, “It suffices for a chained man to close his eyes for him to have the power to make the world explode,” and I, paraphrasing him, add, […]

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Announcing Infinite Crescendo’s 2017 Movie Retrospective: The Films of Luis Buñuel

December 9, 2016by Paul Boyne 6 Comments

His career spanned nearly fifty years, from the end of the silent era to the beginning of the modern blockbuster era. He made films on two continents and in three […]

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My Favorite Movies: The Elephant Man

August 26, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

This film is doubly odd, and perhaps overlooked as though the two kinds of oddness canceled each other out. On the one hand, for a movie by David Lynch, it’s […]

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Double Feature:

February 19, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

They make careers out of fooling audiences, but when all is said and done, they’ve only fooled themselves. Movies that are in some fashion about movies are practically as old as […]

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Double Feature: Ivan’s Childhood and Empire of the Sun

September 19, 2014by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Here are two films about World War II that approach the conflict from unusual vantage points. No Normandy, no Pearl Harbor, no Iwo Jima (neither movie is about America, after […]

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