Levy Unfiltered
70 Years Ago: “And God Created Woman” (1956): Vadim’s Erotic Melodrama that made Brigitte Bardot an Internationak Sex Symbol
Vadim’s erotic melodrama that made Brigitte Bardot an Internationak Sex Symbol–and changed forever the reresentation of sexuality on screen and the fate of French art films in the America movie market.
Reviews
Sansho the Bailiff: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Japanese Masterpiece
Blast from the Past: Mizoguchi’s Masterpiece Revisited
Odyssey, The: Nolan’s Epic: Biggest R-Rated Movie of All Time With $1.35 Billion
It is overtaking the benchmark set by 2024’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” with $1.338 billion.
Cabiria (1914): Giovanni Pastrone’s Italian Silent Epic (Cineliteracy 2014)
Giovanni Pastrone’s Italian silent epic was groundbreaking in its grandiose scale and radical use of a moving camera, pushing cinema forward technologically.
Unknown, The (1927): Tod Browning’s Haunting Horror Masterpiece, Starring Lon Chaney (Cineliteracy 1927)
The Unknown is widely regarded as a masterpiece of the late silent film era and the most outstanding of the 10 Browning-Chaney collaborations, eight of them at MGM.
