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The Fall

If Terry Gilliam ever remade The Wizard of Oz (and you know he’s thought about it), it might look like Tarsem Singh’s The Fall. But not only did Singh beat him to the punch, he outdid him as well with a film that attempts to capture the imaginative process of a child.



Fugitive Pieces

“I did not witness the most important events of my life. My story must be told by a blind man from behind a wall from underground.” When a movie starts by whacking you with a statement like that, accompanied by a lugubrious cello sawing away in a major key, you know that you’re not in for a standard lightweight summer movie.

Standard Operating Procedure

We may think that we no longer believe, as we did way back in the 20th century, the adage that “The camera never lies.” But it’s a hard habit to break, and consciously or not we tend to accept photographic evidence as conclusive.



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