Will McKinley on Nostr: BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) on 35mm at Brooklyn Academy of Music was amazing. TV can ...
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) on 35mm at Brooklyn Academy of Music was amazing.
TV can never match the impact of Nicholas Ray’s CinemaScope compositions, as James Mason towers over all in the throes of mania from prescription drug abuse.
So prescient it's disorienting. And the David Lynch influences are striking.
#FilmMastodon
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