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 | | Nevertheless, the film's bravura style makes for a "dark night of the soul," wrote Tom Milne, "perfectly visualized in John Alton's dazzling camerawork." (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955, 35 mm, 89 mins.) Preserved by UCLA Film and Television Archive and funded by The Film Foundation. |
 | | In homage to the CinemaScope films of Vincente Minnelli, this presentation of a new 35-mm print highlights the director's single foray into Texas with its "oil money, ranchers, large emotions, and skeletons in closets," wrote film historian Geoff Brown. |
 | | The art cinema of the 20th century owes a great deal to the pioneering work of early feminist and avant-garde theorist Germaine Dulac (1882–1942), who, through her short fiction films, newsreels, and documentaries, explored the experimental aesthetics of her time — symbolism and abstraction, avant-garde theater and music, and even the dances of Loïe Fuller. |
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