EPISODES

Episode 125 – A Woman Under the Influence

The Magic Lantern
February 24, 2020
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Episode 125 – A Woman Under the Influence

It’s taken 125 episodes and almost five years of doing the show, but I’m finally ready to talk about John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence (1974). This film puts me through the ringer in a way that no other film comes close to. Gena Rowlands’ high wire act as…

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EPISODES

Episode 016 – Wings of Desire

The Magic Lantern
February 29, 2016
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Episode 016 – Wings of Desire

And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! —Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Eighth Elegy” Dear Compañeros, I invite you to fall under the spell of Wings of Desire (1987), Wim Wenders’ visual poem of a scarred, haunted Berlin, of the mortals who inhabit it and the immortal…

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