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They All Laughed 1981
It should go without saying that in the annals of film history, and even of the auteur theory, there are ranked so many despicable and problematic personalities that Peter Bogdanovich's humdrum caddishness doesn't even merit an honorable mention, so it shouldn't be so very hard to admit that sometimes you had to hand it to him. Nobody wants to think of themselves as a Bogdanovich, though: a bad husband, a brown-noser, an incorrigible skirt-chaser whose grasping for the bygone era…
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Great Day in the Morning 1956
TV stars Robert Stack and Raymond Burr headlining the cast of Great Day in the Morning suggest the small-screen, minor business of the ambiguous plot struggling to justify its widescreen format. As in Canyon Passage Tourneur depicts America's defining conflicts as arising from its fallen nature, petty feuds erupting onto a broader canvas. Why is everyone in this town so concerned with Owen Pentecost, just because he wears black, can shoot a gun and looks, in isolation, like a movie…
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The Curse 2023
Ever since the third season of Twin Peaks ended in the summer of 2017, the dream of a new television Golden Age (which seemed to die out slowly, and then all at once with the culling of digital media’s episodic recap culture in the ‘10s) has been replaced by the anticipation of auteur television. Lynch’s project was not the first such vision, but it so punctuated the ongoing experimentation within the TV landscape over the past few decades that the…