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Eva: “No-one kicks you here, Bruno.”  Bruno Stroszek: “Not physically, here they do it spiritually.”  Stroszek is a film riddled with misfits. Its title character, the musician Bruno Stroszek, is the quintessential misfit. Director Werner Herzog sets him against characters more comfortable in their social roles and identities.   Bruno is an outcast wherever he lives,…

In approximately a decade’s time, if not slightly longer, Nicholas Ray directed a corpus of artistically successful films comparable to William Wyler’s run of exceptional movies in the 1940s and 1950s, to Yasujiro Ozu’s mature work from 1949 to 1962, and to Jean-Luc Godard’s cinematic experiments in the 1960s. Like Godard (who was deeply influenced…

Rick Deckard: She’s a replicant, isn’t she?Dr. Eldon Tyrell: I’m impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot one?Deckard: I don’t get it, Tyrell.Tyrell: How many questions?Deckard: Thirty, forty, cross-referenced.Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn’t it?Deckard: She doesn’t know.Tyrell: She’s beginning to suspect, I think.Deckard: Suspect? How can it…

Appreciation coming from Darren Hughes. Directed by: William A. Wellman Produced by: Written by: Wilson Mizner Robert Lord Gerald Beaumont Lillie Hayward John Francis Larkin Music by: Cinematography by: Sidney Hickox Editing by: James B. Morley Release Date: 1932 Running Time: 73 Language: English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #43

The Mission confronts us with deeply spiritual questions: ·         What are we to make of the fact that the European missionaries often served as the vanguard of colonialism yet also became the staunchest defenders of the colonized against colonial plunder and oppression? ·         To what extent will or should conversion to Christianity change a person, or a whole…

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker is a film set in two worlds, but one that takes place entirely on Earth. The first act of Stalker shows us an unnamed, dilapidated city shot in washed-out sepia tones so murky and muted it is difficult to imagine anything surviving there. In this city lives the Stalker, a man called to guide people into…