Film Archives - Hal Phillips

Professor Nat Greene: Come on Down!

Hal Phillips — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 12:37:17 +0000

As yours probably does, my alma mater hits me all too frequently with some manner of e-newsletter cum fund-raising communiqué. One can hardly escape the memories stirred/jarred by all this WesContact, which is surely the way they want it. In any case, a recent MailChimp morsel revealed, among other things, that three Wesleyan faculty had […]

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Spanish Avant-Garde Cinema Informs Travel Hell

Hal Phillips — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:47:50 +0000

About 25 years ago, as part of an avant-garde film series at college, I saw this great Louis Brunuel movie called The Exterminating Angel. Well, it wasn’t exactly “great”, now that I think back on it, but it was surreal enough to have made a lasting impression. In it some 12 to 15 members of […]

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McShane Deserves a Bust in Rogue’s Gallery

Hal Phillips — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:37:49 +0000

For reasons I’ve never quite understood, I’ve maintained an odd recollection of and attachment to the 1969 film, If it’s Tuesday, This Must be Belgium. It was on TV when I was a kid but no more frequently than any other junkie films that populated the late-night film archives of local Boston affiliates. Why would […]

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