jeremiad,

St. Francis thus becomes the first historical film to take place in the present tense.

Jonah

A dead man is a man who has lost; for the others, the struggle goes on.

Eijanaika

But in the movies-and surely this is part of Godard's point-to change forms is to address audiences.

Death, violence, and moral corruption aren't just slapstick props in these films, but agonizingly real presences, and their comedy isn't a release from horror but a confrontation with it.

The film opens a Pandora's box of forbidden pleasures, linking a marginally acceptable guilty fantasy-running wild in a department store-to a much darker and more sinister one, that of having a license to kill.

As Andre Bazin once said, all films are created equal. Whether they play at the Biograph (as will Violette) or the Chicago (as will Halloween), we owe them the same consideration, the same right to succeed or fail on their own terms.