The Third Part of the Night is Horrifying Cinematic Existentialism

On 05/03/201610/18/2016 By C.H. NewellIn Andrzej Żuławski, Drama, Film, Horror, Polish Film, WarLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdViZkUOLDI The Third Part of the Night. 1971. Directed by Andrzej Żuławski. Screenplay by Andrzej & Miroslaw Żuławski. Starring Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Golinski, Anna Milewska, Michal Grudzinski, & Marek Walczewski. Polski State Film. Not Rated. 105 minutes. Drama/Horror/War ★★★★★ Andrzej Żuławski first wowed me with Possession, and after being completely, morbidly enthralled by its wonderfully …

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Carl Th. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath: An Allegory of Power and the Raw Truth of Religious Cruelties

On 04/30/201610/18/2016 By C.H. NewellIn 1943, Black-and-white, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Day of Wrath, Drama, Film, Nazis, WitchesLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_SATxIRMts Day of Wrath. 1943. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Screenplay by Dreyer, Pol Knudsen, & Mogens Skot-Hansen; based on the play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen. Starring Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, & Albert Hoeberg. Palladium Productions. Not Rated. 97 minutes. Drama ★★★★1/2 History allows us to look back on films …

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