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“Badlands” at 50: Timeless and Still Timely
During the car chase, when the police are almost on top of him, Kit keeps checking his hair in the mirror. Kit fashions himself an outlaw eager for notoriety, an aimless garbage man who has the Dean look. And he wears his convictions, or lack thereof, on the outside. In Badlands, Terrence Malick’s astounding first feature film, Martin Sheen is Kit, Read More
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The Look of Reservoir Dogs: Rooted in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Films, Fashioned by Agnès b.
Referring to them as “the black suits of armour”, Tarantino’s gang members in Reservoir Dogs look like gangsters from Jean-Pierre Melville’s films. Melville’s characters, too, were dressed in suits of armour. Read More
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“Impossible Not to Think of Her”: Catherine Deneuve in Mississippi Mermaid
Catherine Deneuve’s Marion Vergano is a boy, a hoodlum who’d been through hard times, an orphan, a prostitute, accomplice to murder and attempts murder. She is streetwise, cynical, an usurper. Yet, she is is not really bad. Read More
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Solveig Dommartin is Wearing Yohji Yamamoto in “Until the End of the World”
Solveig Dommartin in ”Bis ans Ende der Welt”, 1991 | Argos Films. Road Movie Filmproduktion Until the End of the World begins with a grim end-time scenario. A nuclear satellite threatens to crash through the ozone layer and wipe … Read More
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Nino Cerruti and Cinema
The union between the world of cinema and Nino Cerruti began in the late 1960s. His name appears in the credits of tens of films, dressing memorable characters from both Hollywood and the French cinema, from Jean-Paul Belmondo in Borsalino and Alain Delon in Mr. Klein, to Michael Douglas in Wall Street and Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune. Read More
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