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Read Sarah on Return of the King www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/04/17/r...

brightwalldarkroom.comIn Defense of The Return of the King's Five Separate Endings | BW/DRThe Return of the King is an object lesson in satisfying endings. Each one is necessary, a coda for an important story thread; each one folds in on the others like the pages of a book.

Read C. on the career of Billy Wilder

brightwalldarkroom.comThe Films of Billy Wilder: Some Notes on Crying in the BathroomBilly Wilder is the director whose stories I carry with me if I need to cry in the bathroom.

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Read Emma on the humor of Alfred Hitchcock

brightwalldarkroom.comHitchcock’s Guide to HilarityThere’s a great deal of similarity between a howl of laughter and a scream of terror. Hitchcock tapped into the mechanism behind that duality with preternatural skill. Comedy, like horror, operates on...

Read Roxane on The Fifth Element

brightwalldarkroom.comThe Fifth Element (1997): An Aria for HumanityThe Fifth Element is a space opera deserving of the name, a deeply humanist work, and a cinematic poem to human paradox delivered through the power of music.