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...there would be in the cases you would pick for the court to hear and the cases I would pick,” Breyer said. He added that because of the specificity of the criteria used by the court, choosing which cases to review is fairly straightforward. The main criterion used by the court is whether a case would give “the country a uniform interpretation of federal law,” Breyer said. “We are not an error-correcting court.” Breyer also shed light into the justices’ secret Friday...
Cari Pictures/The Criterion Collection
...Arkadin” was taken away from Welles during post-production; many of the available cuts were butchered versions of his original intent. The Criterion Collection has just released the film in a three disc set that contains the best known versions of the film, a new cut stitched together from all known prints and more special features then you could ever be able to watch. “Mr. Arkadin” is, as the titular character is described in the film, “a phenomenon of an age of disillusionment and crisis.” It?...
...Enrique Chediak expertly times the use of unfocused, shaky or jumping footage to pull the viewer into the interior world of the characters.However, in the less-useful interludes, the film spends an exorbitant amount of time studying the effects of movement, contrasting light and darkness, and other purely aesthetic criterion on the camera. These scenes communicate the emotional and metaphysical turmoil of the characters, in theory, but the balance between visual coolness and purposeful movement of the film definitely shifts toward form over function.Nevertheless, a few of the heavily stylized, minimally scripted scenes do profoundly affect the audience. These scenes...
Directed by Marco Bellochio Peppercorn-Wormser/ The Criterion Collection 4 Stars Marco Bellocchio’s “Fists In the Pocket” follows a murderous epileptic as he begins killing his stuffy, embarrassing family. Oh, and he’s in love with his sister, his first victim is his blind mother, and his second victim is his mentally disabled epileptic brother. It’s an audacious directorial debut, particularly for Italy in 1965, still trying to stitch itself together after the war and, cinematically, completely in the thrall of neo-realism, which was just beginning...