The Monday Intertitle: New Year
“Well, we will certainly know when it’s time to toast the New Year,” says a drunk in a graveyard, looking up at the clock tower in Victor Sjostrom’s THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE. Fiona and I watched this, and its French remake by Julien Duvivier, both of which are great, each of which seems not quite complete. They kind of form a masterpiece between them. I hope to write more on this soon,but now I have to go prep a film — we start shooting in two days…
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