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An appreciation of amusements.

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The Heroes of Telemark (1965, Anthony Mann)

March 26th, 2006 No Comments

I was going to start this post saying I’d never seen Richard Harris so young before, but I guess I have seen The Molly Maguires, which was a little later, but he was still young. He’s larger than life in The Heroes of Telemark, nothing like how I’m used to seeing him. He’s got to […]

The Hidden Blade (2004, Yamada Yôji)

March 26th, 2006 No Comments

John Ford remade 3 Godfathers, William Wyler remade These Three. I’m sure there are other examples of filmmakers trying again (though I have no idea if those examples were artistic or commercial). The Hidden Blade is, at its core, the same film as The Twilight Samurai. The settings are similar, one of the servants is […]