Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo

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About Fabrizio del Wrongo

Recovering liberal arts major. Unrepentant movie nut. Aspiring boozehound.

Internet Nostalgia

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Jane Russell: Singer

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Movie Poster Du Jour: “Illumination”

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Art by Franciszek Starowieyski. Related I wrote (perhaps somewhat incoherently) about Zanussi’s “Contract” back here.

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Notes on “Every-Night Dreams”

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s an almost cubist visual sensibility at work in this 1933 silent from director Mikio Naruse. Scenes are fractured into barrages of angles, the camera sometimes moving in on its subjects in kamikaze fashion. Many of the … Continue reading →

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Movie Poster Du Jour: “1941”

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: With art by David McMacken.

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Crusades

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Zero for Conduct, “Jean Vigo’s rough-hewn, poetic evocation of youth under the strain of institutionalized education, is nearly impossible to summarize in words. Among other things, it’s perhaps the greatest expression of the anarchic impulse ever put on film. In … Continue reading →

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“Particle Fever”

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: If you’re as cynical as I am, you might get something out of this documentary, which is currently available on Netflix Instant. It chronicles the attempts of physicists associated with CERN to detect the Higgs-Boson, that pesky “god … Continue reading →

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Movie Poster Du Jour: “Diary of a Country Priest”

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Captures the sense of heightened stillness evoked by Bresson’s style.

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Juxtaposin’: Radical Race In Movies

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Part 2.

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Notes on “Turn Back the Clock”

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I had an okay time with this rather flimsy and almost Capraesque Lee Tracy film about an Average Joe who gets to relive the recent past. Because he knows what’ll happen, he makes himself into a financial … Continue reading →

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