Author Archives: classiq
“Dark Passage”, Bogie and Bacall’s poetic dreamscape where everything becomes possible
Bogie is on the run, having just escaped prison after he was framed for the murder of his wife, and Bacall comes to his rescue, her belief in his innocence rooted in her own family history. But for the … Read More
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Read instead…in print #39: Lubitsch Can’t Wait
They don’t make comedies like they used to. A cliché? Maybe. But it also just happens to be the plain truth. And they have never made comedies like Ernst Lubitsch did. His comedies make us laugh by not showing, … Read More
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October Newsletter: River of Hills, Bread of Angels, and Desperate Literature
Photos: Classiq Journal ”I watched a teenager at the bookstore counter ask if they still sold a novel that had been banned at her school. The clerk nodded. “We keep a few in the back.” She … Read More
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“Observation is everything to me”: In conversation with artist Lauren Tamaki
Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki Seen and Unseen, by Elizabeth Partridge, explores a grave moment in world history, the Japanese American incarceration as captured by three photographers, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams, beautifully balancing their … Read More
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Read instead…in print #38: Conversations at the AFI with the Great Moviemakers
Reading the series of talks compiled in Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers, with directors, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors, feels like attending the seminars yourself. More than that, these conversations, preserved and presented here … Read More
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