Tag: film
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The Crime Wave at Saltburn
Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” and P.G. Wodehouse’s “Blandings” Saltburn, the recent film by Emerald Fennell, caused a stir when it debuted on Amazon Prime this past December. It’s been criticized, praised, and meme’d, while simultaneously re-popularizating Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s early-2000s hit song “Murder on the Dancefloor.” In short, the film has caused something of a sensation. As…
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Bureaucracy As Accidental Hero
Roberto Rossellini’s “Rome, Open City” and Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” Major Bergmann (right), played by Harry Feist, in Robert Rossellini’s Rome, Open City. Next to him is Ingrid, a German spy, played by Giovanna Galletti. Rome, Open City – the 1946 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini – is ostensibly about resistance fighters in The Eternal…