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Film
Bluebeard on Film

When

Mar 3, 2010 – Mar 7, 2010

Daily

Where
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181)
Price
$9
Details
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=BLUEBEARD%20ON%20FILM
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The tale of Bluebeard — the most notorious interpreter of that sacred, 'til-death-do-apart phrase — has long been a favorite for cinematic adaptation, many very memorable. There's post-Tramp Chaplin in his fantastically acerbic Monsieur Verdoux and Lubitsch's romp Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. And once seen, no one can forget Michael Powell's lysergic use of colors in Bluebeard's Castle. Anthology brings all these and other Bluebeard classics together in a series inspired by Catherine Breillat's recent fairy-tale spin on the femme killer, simply titled Bluebeard.

Jason Jude Chan