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Recent reviews

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  Barry Lyndon 1975

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Aug 2020

  "Some days, we started with the white page, which was the script. And then the pink page would come, which was the revision. And then he’d sit down during a break and do a revision of that revision. That would be the green page. And then there would be the blue page. And then there would be the yellow page. And in the end, we were sort of standing there at the end of the day, saying, “Which f**king version…

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  Simon of the Desert 1965

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Aug 2020

  Simon: What's this dance called?
  The Devil: It’s called ‘radioactive flesh’! It’s the latest dance – the final dance.

Popular reviews

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  Lawrence of Arabia 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Aug 2020

  "It was in the script as a dissolve, but we saw it cut together before we had the optical delivered. We looked at the job and said, ‘My, God it worked fantastic!’ We tried taking a frame off here and there. David said to me in the end, ‘That’s nearly perfect. Take it away and make it perfect.’ I literally took two frames off of the outgoing scene and that’s the way it is today.” ” Anne V. Coates on the match match cut.

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  The Seventh Seal 1957

  ★★★★ Rewatched 19 Aug 2020

  “Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.”
  Ingmar Bergman