Tag: Edward Dmytryk

‘Bluebeard’ (1972): So much potential, but mostly goes to waste

With the days getting more brisk as the sun loses its power to warm us, and the nights getting longer and more still, it wouldn’t be unexpected to have a certain melancholia creep into one’s temper. Drinking and cleaning your guns in the dark helps to shake it loose, but only so much. What one really… Read More ‘Bluebeard’ (1972): So much potential, but mostly goes to waste

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‘Hitler’s Madman’ & ‘Hitler’s Children’ (1943): Der Fuhrer doubleheader

In my very few moments of sobriety, when the background fuzz partly clears and gives way to bits and pieces of actual audio/visual information that land, one of the constant drones I encounter lately is that I’m no longer living in a democracy (which is curious…since we’ve always been a constitutional republic), but rather a… Read More ‘Hitler’s Madman’ & ‘Hitler’s Children’ (1943): Der Fuhrer doubleheader

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