Restoration and Revisionism

In their joint commentary track on the Masters of Cinema DVD/Blu-Ray release of the newly restored Metropolis, David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum express some concern that this new version will cause the disappearance of all previous versions. Why should this be a problem? After all, the “restored” Metropolis is the closest we’ll ever get to […]

Blasts from the past

Miscellaneous viewing – Summer 2019

Sidney Lumet, from stage to screen

Room 237: an obsessive search for meaning
in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

The limits of list-making

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