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Film · Italy · 1911

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L'Inferno

29Leave it.

Dante's hell is a gallery of pain here, and I won't walk you through it.

Take controlThis scores 29. L'Inferno cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Italy made its first long picture as a tour of Dante's hell. Devils, poets, the damned. A teen can watch it. I am not describing the tortures. The theology is a gallery of pain. That phrase is enough.

What it proved is that a long picture could hold a public. Not an American gross, and not a reason to call the night comforting. I sat through the idea of it more than I sat through a life. No wage, no child, no town you'd go home to. If someone wants the poem, this is an early gallery that showed the length a film could run.

Journal

Keep L'Inferno in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Practical Magic 2

40 instead of 29

Practical Magic 2 is still a fantasy film, and it scores 40 instead of 29. What you gain is household: Sisters remain the promise.

The eight

3
Industry
No wage or craft; the work that mattered was holding a long public.
1
Household
Poets, devils, and the damned: no parent, wife, or child is the life.
4
Piety
The theology is a gallery of pain, not a conscience that stops a hand.
4
Courage
A poet's tour of the damned is the only risk the picture offers.
2
Republic
Hell is not a town anyone owes; the damned are already past the law.
2
Temperance
You are walked from punishment to punishment, and the next one is the pull.
5
Truth
It is Dante's hell filmed, and the first long Italian picture.
2
Stewardship
Nothing is restored to the damned; a public learned a picture could be long.

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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1963

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Cleopatra

29Leave it.

The procession is the product. The affair is the plot, and the plot is not a life.

Take controlThis scores 29. Cleopatra cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

It cost enough to nearly sink a studio, and the cost is not a quality. A queen manages Rome by managing two men, and the film is interested in the managing as a pageant and a love affair. The processions are long because the processions are what the money bought. I will not pretend the length is grandeur. Length is what you get when nobody was willing to cut the entrance.

The marriages in the way of the affair are treated as furniture. That is the part a house should not absorb. Adults can look at the barge as a document of a certain kind of Hollywood excess and then leave it. Do not sit a young person down in front of four hours in which the lesson is that history is a romance with better curtains. The crowds came. The number is not the crowds.

Journal

Keep Cleopatra in the record.