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David Kalat

David Kalat is a film historian who has been in love with the fantastique since his misspent childhood. He has written several books, including The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse and, most recently, Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball.

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Eyes Without a Face: The Unreal Reality

Georges Franju deftly balances fantasy and realism, clinical detachment and operatic emotion, beauty and pain, all presided over by Edith Scob’s haunting, haunted eyes.

By David Kalat

Essays— Oct 16, 2013