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Borzage’s The River and Strange Cargo

March 28th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · Comments Off

AndrÈ Bazin once wrote, “Our melodrama in the last century has lost almost all its dramatic integrity and merely survives as a parody.” If that was true in the 1950s (with Sirk and Ray at the height of their powers), it’s definitely true today, when ironic detachment reigns supreme. Outside of contemporary Korean [...]

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