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A Postmodern Roadmap for a Gag

By Finn Odum June 30, 2024 June 27, 2024 The Long Take

|Cole Seidl| Shinichiro Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead has been incredibly, yet quietly, influential since its initial release in Japan in 2017. It has spawned a small independent film movement in Japan known as “nagamawashi” films (or “long take” films) which aim to exploit the… Continue reading

From the Darkness: The Influence of German Expressionism on Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train

By Finn Odum April 1, 2024 March 25, 2024 Hitchcock 125

|Daniel McCabe| Strangers on a Train (1951) comes from the darkness, and not only because Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) shot the film in black and white. It draws influences from the German Expressionist films of the 1920s to create a foreboding mood while using the conventions… Continue reading

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A Postmodern Roadmap for a Gag

From the Darkness: The Influence of German Expressionism on Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train

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