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Movie Review
Great Expectations (1946)
d. David Lean
Criterion Collection #31
The most interesting feature of the Criterion Collection edition of Great Expectations is the total absence of extra features. Just the original trailer from the UK! For the Criterion Channel they added a seven minute interview with director Julie Taymor, but other than that, nada. Great Expectations was less controversial than his Oliver Twist, due to the absence of Alec Guinness as a broadly anti-Semitic caricature of Fagin, Like Twist, Great Expectations frequently makes use of expressionist techniques, such as the treatment of the interior of Ms. Havisham's house- a nightmarish place that seems to consist entirely of Escher-like staircases.
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