I will admit that for most of my run in catching up with the Best Picture winners I hadn't seen yet it has been a bit of a slog. It simply confirmed that there was a reason why I ignored most of these movies in the first place as I ran the gamut of over-wrought, …
Anybody who has had a glimpse of the magnitude of my personal movie collection has long suspected that I have a problem. And they would be right. My collection is enormous thanks to the lethal combinations of my completionist streak, the increasing availability of disposable income, and the general collapse of the home video market. …
Continue reading Adventures in Criterion Vol. 1: Crime Movies
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the key difference in creating a successful atmosphere of suspense is to "keep the audience informed." In his famous "bomb under the table" example he showed that while the explosion may provide 10 seconds of shock, it is the knowledge that there is a bomb under the table and that …
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