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In Sneaky Afterlife Romance ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, There’s Poetry but No God

In Sneaky Afterlife Romance ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, There’s Poetry but No God

Powell and Pressburger's witty wartime classic about a British airman who goes to court in heaven to appeal his death is a celebration of the human spirit that separates romanticism from sentimentality.

Presiding over Accidents in Orson Welles’s ‘Othello ‘

Presiding over Accidents in Orson Welles’s ‘Othello ‘

For Welles, the director is "the man who presides over accidents but doesn't make them" and never were there more accidents over which to preside for Welles than in Othello.

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