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Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara Hiroshi)

September 4th, 2007 No Comments

Episodes of the “Twilight Zone” ran thirty minutes, or whatever without commercials, for a very good reason. Stretching a one-note story out to an hour would be too exasperating. Woman in the Dunes stretches it out to, I guess, two and a half hours.
The film starts interestingly enough. An entomologist looking for bugs finds himself […]