Janus Challenge Wrap-Up
We put in so many hours watching these films and writing about them that we felt compelled to do a little something special to commemorate the project’s completion.
Read MoreThe White Sheik
“Sometimes (debut films) have nothing to do with the work that develops later, and sometimes the work never gets better. But sometimes you can see the hints of what would come later bursting through like an eruption from another film entirely.” – Neil Jordan
Read MoreThe Wages of Fear
“You don’t know what fear is. But you’ll see. It’s catching. It’s catching like smallpox. And once you get it, it’s for life.” – Dick, in The Wages of Fear
Read MoreViridiana
“I didn’t deliberately set out to be blasphemous, but then Pope John XXIII is a better judge of such things than I am.” – Luis Buñuel
Read MoreThe Virgin Spring
I watched both The Virgin Spring and its unofficial 1972 remake, The Last House on the Left. Quite a double bill.
Read MoreUmberto D.
“My films are a struggle against the absence of human solidarity… against the indifference of society towards suffering. They are a word in favor of the poor and unhappy.” – Vittorio De Sica
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