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Click, click (#11): The Story Behind The Duellists

I briefly mentioned the movie The Duellists in an earlier post, and I thought I’d better follow up with a longer post to talk about the story behind the movie, or rather, the story behind the book...

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Night Train to Munich

By the rails leading in to Munich there is a simple graffiti piece greeting passengers in one word, ‘SERVUS’. Great movies with trains here, here, and here.

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In Memoriam: Erland Josephson (15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012)

I just saw via Sten Lindström on facebook that Swedish actor Erland Josephson has passed away. He was known for his roles in Bergman’s Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973), Fanny och Alexander (1982), and...

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Ei blot til Lyst (#1): Caché

Michael Haneke’s brilliant move in the film Hidden is to let the video tape run, without revealing to the viewer that she’s watching a video playing in the movie. Then, all of a sudden, the...

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Freedom

Some time ago Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, gave his top ten advice to aspiring writers The Guardian. One of them, no 8, says that it’s doubtful that anyone with internet in...

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The Electronic Circus – Direct lines (1981) [#postpunk]

Video from Bergman’s Summer with Monica (1952)

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