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Author Constantine Santas

Constantine Santas

Constantine Santas is Professor Emeritus at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. He is currently working on a book on Eric Rohmer, based mainly on the ‘Six Moral Tales’, titled The Dialectics of Morality and Romance.

Choice and Chance: A Dialectic of Morality and Romance in Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s

Constantine Santas
April 2010
Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers
Love, morality, fidelity and chance crystallised around Pascal’s ‘wager’. Taken by many to be the key film of the ‘Six Moral Tales’ series, the fascination of this film has not receded with time. Constantine Santas unravels the film’s thematics.
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Office Killer: A Movie Not for Every Taste

Constantine Santas
February 2001
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Office Killer (1997 USA 81 mins) Source: Palace Prod Co: Good Machine/Kardana-Swinsky Films/Strand Prod: Pamela Koffler Dir: Cindy Sherman Scr: Tom Kalin, Elise MacAdam Ph: Russell Fine Ed: Merril Stern ...
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Lolita – From Nabokov’s Novel (1955) to Kubrick’s Film (1962) to Lyne’s (1997)

Constantine Santas
November 2000
Novel and Film
Santas looks at the many faces of Lolita.
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The Remake of Psycho (Gus Van Sant, 1998): Creativity or Cinematic Blasphemy?

Constantine Santas
November 2000
Feature Articles
For Santas, the remake falls very flat.
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Concepts of Suicide in Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry

Constantine Santas
September 2000
Abbas Kiarostami
Santas attempts to unravel the beautiful strangeness and logic of Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry.

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