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No. 18: Mahagonny 1980
Well hey, if even the one and only P. Adams Sitney—who introduced the screening of the 35mm restoration I saw at Anthology Film Archives—says that he "hates" this Harry Smith four-screen epic, then I feel comfortable in admitting that I found this alternately entrancing and tedious. Reading the plot summary of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht opera that inspired Smith and provides its soundtrack—and which I didn't know very well going in—at best…
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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué 1996
It was an honor to revisit this 1996 Frederick Wiseman documentary and discuss it with Shawn Glinis and Arlin Golden in this episode of their Wiseman Podcast.