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I finally got around to seeing it, last night, and felt compelled for some reason to record my impressions. Which lie, for you should you care, right after the jump.

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I’ve been teaching Days of Heaven on and off for a several years now, and I transcribed Linda Manz‘s voice-over narration because I couldn’t find it online anywhere. Besides being one of the most extraordinary aspects of the film, it ranks as some of the finest poetry of the past 35 years. Director Terrence Malick [...]

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[By now it was late. The three stars were dimpling the sky. The baby raccoon was crying for its milk (I’d taken in an orphan the week before). But Jeremy and I weren’t finished yet discussing the movies we’d just watched.] A D: You had a rather serious reaction to this one, Jeremy. Were you [...]

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Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]

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[Update 8 Sept 10: If you're reading this, you might also be interested in my related posts, "Art as Device, and Device (When it Works) as Miracle," and "Scott Pilgrim vs. Inception for the Future of the Cinematic Imagination." —Adam] [Update 4 Oct 10: As well as this post: "More on Inception: Shot Economy and [...]

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