Joseph Archive

  • The Seventh Seal

    The Seventh Seal

    The Seventh Seal is a great place to start with Bergman, an abstract, timeless classic that depicts a medieval knight’s...

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  • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

    The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

    As bizzarre as this movie is, the most surprising thing about the film is the brilliant sense of comic timing...

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  • Crimes and Misdemeanors

    Crimes and Misdemeanors

    A modern response to Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Crimes and Misdemeanors is a film where religion, philosophy, art, and love...

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  • Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Dead

    Romero takes the fun of zombies seriously, while simultaneously having some fun with serious philosophical questions that arise in a...

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  • Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

    Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

    It’s the Godfather II of horror sequels, and it has everything that makes Raimi worth watching: Three Stooges humor, over...

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  • Crazy Love (1897)

    Crazy Love (1897)

    Love is a dog from hell. This three-act Belgian film is taken from Bukowski’s various short stories and novels and...

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  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    Once Upon a Time in the West

    A sweeping, beautifully paced journey through a world that probably never existed until folk like John Ford and Akira Kurosawa...

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  • Rashomon

    Rashomon

    It’s a work of bold, abstract beauty that questions reality by consensus. A rape and murder mystery is told and...

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  • Tideland

    Tideland

    Terry Gilliam’s Tideland is his (and novelist Mitch Cullin’s) eschatological version of Alice in Wonderland, but no magic mushrooms are...

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  • Cría cuervos…

    Cría cuervos…

    …y te arrancarán los ojos. The story paints a candid picture of childhood as “interminable, sad, full of fear, fear...

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