adaptation

Rialto

By Norman Gidney | November 2020

Rialto is not a film that offers a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it slices through the stratum in the life of…

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Rialto is not a film that offers a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it slices through the stratum in the life of its characters, allowing us a moment...

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Ideally, a single movie should stand on its own. Ideally, the social importance of a film should not influence whether that film is good or bad. Otherwise,...

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When philosopher Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the logistical mastermind of Hitler’s Final Solution, she was...

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