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This article appeared first in our all-Sirk print issue (#6, Winter 1977) and was reposted in the March 1997 online version of Bright Lights. We present it here to celebrate[…] Drama · Reviews · Thrillers & Action
Dec 4, 2021 · Indeed. it is very much a Joker-as-clown and/or mentally ill psychopath with which anarchist stereotypes are so often conflated. In his Film and the Anarchist Imagination, Richard Porton laments that such reductive representations of “anarchists” have a cinematic pedigree almost as old as the form itself.18 According to Porton, prior to the October Revolution, anarchists had been ...
— Robert Castle. Robert Castle has been contributing to Bright Lights Film Journal since 2000. His book The Interpretive Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick, is available on Kindle. In 2006, his first books were published: The End of Travel, a memoir (Ravenna Books); Odd Pursuits, a collection of 16 stories (Wild Child Publishing); and A Sardine on Vacation, fiction based on the feature columns ...
Jan 3, 2017 · Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds premieres Saturday, January 7 at 8PM, only on HBO.Subscribe to the HBO Docs YouTube: http://itsh.bo...
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Oct 31, 2023 · The new film would emerge as a commercially viable product that would also — in subtext — subvert existing mores. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), in the guise of a comic horror tale, is a dizzying assault on the notions of the sanctity of standard sex roles, marriage, and “family values.” 1. While hindsight is rightly suspect as a ...
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Jan 1, 2021 · Meanwhile Laura, his first film noir, revealed the neuroses, the strains of violence and corrupted romantic yearning under the shell of the tough guy. Whether playing flawed heroes or redeemable villains, he found his niche as noir’s troubled conscience. His suits seemed welded to him like armor.
