The Wizard of Awe: Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
you gotta have the yang with the yin. Miyazaki’s films always have both, and Spirited Away is one of his finest.
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Fritz Lang’s Diabolical Dr. Mabuse Trilogy
Lang was obsessed with the suspicion that he would be forgotten, the robotic assessment “Failure, failure, failure,” probably running through his consciousness.
The Not-So-Straight Story: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
the latest installment in what has so far been a truly innovative, daring, and original bending of the rules from a director who always wanted to be a world-famous painter.
Lynch, David (1946—)
Lynch’s style became his signature, to the point where reviewers, unable to comprehend, simply claimed that Lynch was being Lynch.