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Teinosuke Kinugasa’s asylum-set Japanese silent, A Page of Madness, was considered lost for nearly half a century.

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Michel de Montaigne, the wise philosopher, once wrote that, “To philosophize is to learn to die.”

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Chekhov’s Gun: a dramatic principle that requires that every element in a narrative be necessary and irreplaceable, and that everything else be removed.

Indie Cinema 2016: Films That Matter

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Indie Cinema 2012: Films That Matter

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