FilmsGenial Yeti & Trippy Robot ·
When films are structured like video games
Sometimes, a movie is just a movie. But when filmmakers take inspiration from another medium, the effect can be exhilarating.
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FilmsGenial Yeti & Bulent Yusuf ·
Number crunching the Criterion Closet Picks
A prestigious cupboard of physical media. A cavalcade of filmmakers and actors. What patterns can we find between them?
FilmsGenial Yeti ·
Adventures in post-war Europe: The Third Man & Roman Holiday
Two directors take the same raw material, a city and its people pulling themselves back together, and hand the audience two completely different truths.
FilmsBulent Yusuf ·
Great artists steal: Yojimbo & A Fistful of Dollars
Two films telling the same story through different genres, actors, languages, even music. Did one steal from the other? Does it even matter?
FilmsGenial Yeti ·
Double bill of dread: Wages of Fear & Diabolique
Two thrillers directed by Clouzot, two opposite theories of dread: in one the threat is a bad road, in the other it's the person across the breakfast table.
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