"And I was born in '67. I'm just an old movie wonk, I guess."
Certainly more so than me; though I wouldn't call myself ignorant of pre-Kubrick cinema (the real recent luminary from my perspective), I've tended to focus on more specific content (mostly because of cinema class curricula).
I'm talking pictures like Birth of a Nation/Intolerance, stuff in the Welles oeuvre (not just Kane; for instance, his Macbeth is quite good), Shakespearean filmic-transportations (Olivier; Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar), and then cinematic technicians such as Godard, Eisenstein, Renoir (Vivre sa vie and Potemkin are superlative films).
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