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BABY DOLL: The Many Races of Eli Wallach
In Baby Doll Eli Wallach is Silva Vacarro, the chivalrous and conniving, self-described ‘wop’. He’s smooth-talking and animated and doesn’t trust anybody because, “Sicilians are a very ancient race”...
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BABY DOLL: Pot Liquor
Baby Doll reaches a frenzy during the final dinner scene. And while we’ll certainly be discussing this on Friday, I wanted to draw your attention to one particularly insane section of this scene. Baby...
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BABY DOLL: The J. C. Burrus House
The J. C. Burrus House in 1956 Kazan shot Baby Doll on location at the J. C. Burrus house of Benoit, Mississippi. The dilapidated plantation is the last remaining Antebellum home in Bolvar County, and...
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BIG SHOT: Baby Doll
Tennessee Williams wrote the script. Elia Kazan shot on location in a small southern town where he rallied some of the locals to play townspeople. Karl Malden gives a characteristically stellar...
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BABY DOLL: C for Condemned
Baby Doll burst onto the scene in a blaze of glory – at least for snickering Hollywood PR hucksters who abide by the old platitude of “any press is good press.” Cardinal Francis Spellman, the powerful...
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Betty Blue: The One and Only Beatrice Dalle
Despite not being able to understand what anybody is talking about, Beatrice Dalle oozes natural talent and sex appeal in these camera tests. Although she has never matched the success brought on by...
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Betty Blue: Houses on Stilts
Click to view slideshow. The first act of Betty Blue finds us in a strange community of weather-worn cottages on stilts, of which our narrator and protagonist Zorg is the caretaker. As with all the...
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Betty Blue du Look
Jean-Jacques Beineix, Leos Carax, and Luc Besson were making the hippest films in France in the 1980s. These slick cinematic explosions were coined the Cinéma du Look by critic Raphael Bassan, and...
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BETTY BLUE: Tequila Betty
With one day before our Big Shot on Betty Blue it’s time to step up to the plate and get pickled with a little game we like to call Tequila Betty. Here’s what you need: Betty Blue (watch it now on...
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BIG SHOT: Betty Blue
Betty Blue opens with a sex scene. A very real and graphic sex scene. The camera slowly moves in on two nudes writhing around under a poster of the Mona Lisa. What begins as unsettling is suddenly...
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