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Somewhere between the sooty celluloid nightmares of Weimar and the jazz-handed optimism of Hollywood’s first golden bloom, Britain muttered its own quiet revolution in A Temporary Vagabond—a film so elusive that even the BFI’s nitrate sleuths once mistook its lone surviving reel for a newsreel of Cornish fishermen. W...
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" Somewhere between the sooty celluloid nightmares of Weimar and the jazz-handed optimism of Hollywood’s first golden bloom, Britain muttered its own quiet revolution in A Temporary Vagabond—a film so elusive that even the BFI’s nitrate sleuths once mistook its lone surviving reel for a newsreel of Cornish fishermen. When the lights claw back on after the final frame, what lingers is not the plot’s elegant vertebrae but its marrow: the smell of wet earth, the rattle of a quill signing away centu..."
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