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CITY OF SADNESS: WINDOW ON CHINA

Review of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s movie “A City of Sadness” (1989), written by Yann Tobin for the French magazine Positif in 1990

What We Learned From.. The Battle of Adrianople

In 378 Goth cavalry stormed a Roman force at Adrianople (present-day Edirne, Turkey). According to 4th century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the Goths inflicted “enormous losses” on the legionaries, moving St. Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, to bemoan “the end of all humanity.”

2001: A Space Odyssey – Kubrick’s Cosmos

Stanley Kubrick’s potentially majestic myth about man’s first encounter with a higher life form than his own dwindles into a whimsical space operetta, then frantically inflates itself again for a surreal climax in which the imagery is just obscure enough to be annoying, just precise enough to be banal.

Sergio Leone directing the hanging scene of 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

THE MAKING OF ‘ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST’

Sergio Leone’s film Once Upon a Time in the West set out to be the ultimate Western―a celebration of the power of classic Hollywood cinema, a meditation on the making of America and a lament for the decline of one of the most cherished film genres in the form of a “dance of death.”

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