Murice Brachard, a dock laborer, rises to be a "Samson" of finance with terrific power and a primordial ferocity, which he needs when his wife spurns his devotion, and people he trusts try to pull down the structure of wealth he has erected..
Henri Bernstein
United States
Spoilers are part of the architecture here; enter the temple at your own peril. There is a moment, roughly halfway through Samson, when the camera lingers on William Farnum’s vertebrae as he strips to the waist in the cavernous gymnasium he has built atop his Manhattan rooftop. The sinews are those of a longshoreman...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Edgar Lewis
Edgar Lewis
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" Spoilers are part of the architecture here; enter the temple at your own peril. There is a moment, roughly halfway through Samson, when the camera lingers on William Farnum’s vertebrae as he strips to the waist in the cavernous gymnasium he has built atop his Manhattan rooftop. The sinews are those of a longshoreman, but the skin is now luminescent under electric lamps that cost more than the tenement where he once slept. The film does not cut away; it wants us to feel the contradiction—an em..."
