Movies: David Wharry

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Dreams: that cinema of the mind in which we are both spectator and protagonist, where anything is always seamlessly possible, where the most implausible encounters are commonplace....

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On a coffee plantation near Havana in the early 19th century, a slave’s impossible love for the owner’s daughter....

The actors: a projector, a screen, a voice, an audience and a cinema. The locations: “here” and “there.” The situation: an audience is sitting in the dark in a cinema. The film begins when the projector is switched on. The projector is running em...

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Anatole Lacoste and the Eye of the Squid General Picture – Episode 13 On his return to Paris after his discovery of the tomb of the giant squid Kheptar in the Nile Valley in Nubia, the Egyptologist Professor Anatole Lacoste falls into the hands of ...

Teo Hernández films some friends in a park under the Parisian summer heat....

"The eye. It sees. It sees what it sees. Light…"...

Shot-by-shot description of John Boorman’s neo-noir film (1967), starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O’Connor....

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The multiple identities of Professor Anatole Lacoste....

The shadow of an opening door sweeps across the floor......

The intermission....

What do you remember about a film when you haven’t seen it for ten years? James McCourt’s memory is prodigious. In an office in the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, the American writer recounts his favourite film, Douglas Sirk’s 1956 melodrama WRITTE...

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