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No Joke
I haven’t found Alan Moore’s reaction to Batman: The Killing Joke being made into an animated feature, but given his previous reactions to cinematic adaptations of his creations I doubt he’s very excited at the prospect. I’m a fan of Moore’s and I’ve enjoyed some of the adaptations of his work more than others. I’m [...]
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Tagged adaptation, Alan Moore, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: The Killing Joke, cinema, comics, film, movie
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The Horror of Roman Polanski
One of my favorite movie-going experiences of 2012 was spending four Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A 15-hour history of cinema that A.O. Scott of The New York Times called “a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours…stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom.” Before [...]
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Tagged cinema, film, horror, Mark Cousins, movie, Occult, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Scene by Scene, terror, The 9th Gate, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Story of Film, The Tenant
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