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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 241728" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>Slant Magazine: <a href="https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/starring-joan-crawford-on-the-criterion-channel/" target="_blank">Starring Joan Crawford on the Criterion Channel</a></p><p></p><p><em>The myth of Joan Crawford’s life and career is inseparable from what she did on screen. Though she worked with many fine directors across her career, all of Crawford’s films are essentially about her, and they need to be seen in terms of her unending thirst for publicity and attention, which still bears fruit and fans more than 40 years after her death. Crawford arouses sympathy and repulsion by turns, and the hilarious tunnel-vision focus that made her the ultimate camp totem is also what makes her lovable, in spite of the increasing warrior-hardness of her face, her often-monotonous intensity, and the sometimes off-puttingly aggressive way she offered her psychic battle scars to the camera.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 241728, member: 5079"] Slant Magazine: [URL='https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/starring-joan-crawford-on-the-criterion-channel/']Starring Joan Crawford on the Criterion Channel[/URL] [I]The myth of Joan Crawford’s life and career is inseparable from what she did on screen. Though she worked with many fine directors across her career, all of Crawford’s films are essentially about her, and they need to be seen in terms of her unending thirst for publicity and attention, which still bears fruit and fans more than 40 years after her death. Crawford arouses sympathy and repulsion by turns, and the hilarious tunnel-vision focus that made her the ultimate camp totem is also what makes her lovable, in spite of the increasing warrior-hardness of her face, her often-monotonous intensity, and the sometimes off-puttingly aggressive way she offered her psychic battle scars to the camera.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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