Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves and Modern Spain
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[caption id="attachment_19834" align="alignright" width="319"] Alex van Warmerdam[/caption] Practically all published items on Borgman (2013), no matter how tiny, mentioned the fact that this was the
The Adaptation and the Remake: From John M. Stahl’s When Tomorrow Comes to Douglas Sirk’s Interlude
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On Watching Movies in Planes: Diary of an International Flight
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Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009)
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Uncomfortably at Home: German Films at the 64th Berlinale
In the press conference for Stereo, one of the Berlin Film Festival’s German films, the cast was asked why their film had already sold out