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Gordon Thomas
in issue 66
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Play Time, Gaumont Treasures, Diary for My Children, Winstanley, Marlene, Bill Douglas Trilogy — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 65
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Bardelys the Magnificent, Monte Cristo, Cleopatra, In the Realm of the Senses, Au Bonheur des Dames, Daisies, The Saragossa Manuscript — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 64
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Hobson's Choice, Murnau, Divorce Iranian Style/Runaway, Poil de Carotte, Celia — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
Books: Douglas Fairbanks, by Jeffrey Vance
in issue 63
Griffith's Great American Pastoral: Location and Meaning in Way Down East — "The air is saturated with their feelings for each other as they listen to 'the distant music of the falls,' the same falls, of course, that will threaten to kill her."
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The General, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer, Fighters/Real Money, Lady with the Dog — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 62
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The Italian, Traffic in Souls, Privilege, Wings, The Ascent, Tropical Malady, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, J'Accuse — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 61
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: La Roue, The Last Emperor, Lost in Beijing, Popeye the Sailor, Satantango, Vampyr — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 60
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Harry Langdon: Lost and Found, Postwar Kurosawa, I Am Cuba, The Dragon Painter, The Wrath of the Gods, Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
Dream Documents of Civil War: Three Films by Miklós Jancsó — "Jancsó's controlled aesthetic acts as a dissonance that vibrates expressively with scenes of violence, torture, and shame."
in issue 59
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Our Hitler, Sawdust and Tinsel, Black Sun, Marketa Lazarova, Battleship Potemkin, Nosferatu, Automatons — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
Peter Watkins and the Politics of Expression: On Edvard Munch (1974) and The Freethinker (1994) — "Watkins' filmmaking bravely seeks an insistence on personal truth — his own and the viewer's."
in issue 58
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The Valentino Collection (The Young Rajah, Moran of the Lady Letty, Stolen Moments, Society Sensation), True Heart Susie, She, The Call of Cthulhu, El Bruto — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
Will the Shark Bite? G. W. Pabst and The Threepenny Opera — "Macheath: I'm not asking you to put on an opera." — Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera, Act 1, scene 2
in issue 57
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness; The Party and the Guests; Woman Is the Future of Man; Sansho the Bailiff; Old Joy; The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg; 20 Fingers; Electric Edwardians — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 56
Of Sexual Hate and Lonely Death: The Mysteries of Pandora's Box — "When what you write about is what you see/What do you write about when it's dark?"
— Charles Wright
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Mouchette, 1900, Siberiade, Oyster Princess, I Don't Want to Be a Man, King Lear, Another Sky — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 55
An Immovable Feast? Another Look at Henry King's The Sun Also Rises — "It's sort of what we have instead of God"
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Night Train, Edi, The Red and the White, Edgar G. Ulmer Archive, Hunger, Beyond the Rocks — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
in issue 54
The Sweet Smell of Asphalt: Discovering Joe May's 1929 Masterwork — "Amann's sexuality in Asphalt has little in common with the chilled porcelain passivity of stars like Dietrich and Garbo . . ."
in issue 53
In Love with Liv Who Loves Life: Surviving Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf — "If the demons leave, maybe the angels will too"
in issue 52
Getting It Right the Second Time: Adapting Ben-Hur for the Screen — Bigger is better this time — though Wyler and Rozsa helped
in issue 51
A Tale of Two Kings: DeMille's Silent Classic on DVD, in Both Versions — Faith meets flamboyance in DeMille's Jesus epic, beautifully restored
in issue 50
Beautiful Dead Girl: The Olive Thomas Collection on DVD — "She's got the eyes of a great one, putting over something incalculable . . ."
