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Pauline à la plage: Yet Another Alluring Éric Rohmer Love Lesson

Éric Rohmer’s third Comédies et proverbes from the 1980s is yet another masterful grasp of the human language of, and lessons in, love. Pauline à la…

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Filmotomy Podcast Episode 30: Was 1983 Such A Poor Year For Film?

Podcast 30 already, and we rewind all the way back to 1983 to discuss the notion of it being one of the very worst years…

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Sink Your Teeth Into This: Revisiting The Hunger (1983)

Nothing Human Loves Forever Tagline for The Hunger Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) and John (David Bowie), are your typically average elegant, fashion conscious and yuppie vampires-next-door…

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Rewind 1983: The Right Stuff

It’s all there, from the big moments on the launch pad that played-out on the international stage to the small moments like chasing your love on horseback through the desert. Intimacy and grandeur, the key elements in the classic epic filmmaking, share the screen equally as if to remind us that all heroes do not necessarily make it to the TV screen.

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