Oh my God, are they going to kill that kid? No, oh good because that is not what I signed up for. After the credits the first inter-title states, “A picture with a smile – and perhaps, a tear,” so I was genuinely stunned when the tough pulled his revolver on the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. Soon, though, my laughter started to gain steam until I was on a giggle course straight through to the dream sequence.
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Read more "Metropolis"Sometimes I sit down and watch a film with some preconceived notions of what will entertain me. I had watched the first twenty-odd minutes of The Passion of Joan of Arc several months ago, before I started working through the films on the Sight and Sound list, and I cannot say that I was really […]
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