Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment and she two-times him; he comforts near-suicidal Annie and she robs him.
The first time I saw The Affairs of Anatol, I was wedged into a folding chair at a repurposed Brooklyn warehouse, 16 mm acetate crackling through a carbon-arc projector while some neo-Gatsby trust-fund kid spilled absinthe on my shoes. Ninety seconds in, Gloria Swanson’s tiara flashed and every conversation evaporate...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
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" The first time I saw The Affairs of Anatol, I was wedged into a folding chair at a repurposed Brooklyn warehouse, 16 mm acetate crackling through a carbon-arc projector while some neo-Gatsby trust-fund kid spilled absinthe on my shoes. Ninety seconds in, Gloria Swanson’s tiara flashed and every conversation evaporated; the room held its breath for 117 minutes. That is the occult voltage of this 1921 phantom—an artifact that should feel moth-eaten yet remains electrically alive, pulsing with ch..."
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