by Steve Vineberg

No Master

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Anderson’s movies promote a particular fallacy: they encourage us to accept the symbol for the reality.

High Comedy and Melodrama: Henry James on Screen

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It’s James’s special gift to draw us so far inside this world that the smallest hint of a hidden truth, catching the silvery glint of an unexpected phrase or an unorthodox encounter, can strike us with the power of an earthquake.

Back to the Cold War

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These men in their expensive suits, stabbing each other quietly in the back, are Le Carré’s satirical metaphor for the decay of England after the fading of the Empire.

Cherry Blossoms and Kimonos: The Makioka Sisters

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Kon Ichikawa’s 1983 film of Junichiro Tanizaki’s novel THE MAKIOKA SISTERS is one of the great movies of its era and one of the finest modern film adaptations of a literary source.