As New A history and theory of going too far, "Film Follies examines those rare pictures that are both cinematic landmarks and monuments to a directors hybris, from Griffiths "Intolerance through to Coppolas "Apocalypse Now and Caraxs "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. Seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, fantastic architecture and the haphazard structure of a musical revue: such are the landmarks of those improbably great (and greatly improbable) films Klawans calls "follies
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As New A history and theory of going too far, "Film Follies examines those rare pictures that are both cinematic landmarks and monuments to a directors hybris, from Griffiths "Intolerance through to Coppolas "Apocalypse Now and Caraxs "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. Seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, fantastic architecture and the haphazard structure of a musical revue: such are the landmarks of those improbably great (and greatly improbable) films Klawans calls "follies
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