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- Birth nameCarlos Figueredo
- Carlos Clarens was born on July 7, 1930 in Havana, Cuba. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969), Image of Love (1964) and Goldflocken (1976). He died on February 8, 1987 in New York City, New York, USA.
- He suffered from chronic asthma throughout his life and it contributed to a relatively early death.
- He was an acclaimed (but not very prolific) film critic in the US, whose famous books on horror films and gangster films are still widely read. He also wrote a book-length study of the films of George Cukor. In New York, he ran (with Mary Corliss) a photo-agency specializing in stills from old movies, which provided illustrations for many magazine articles and film books.
- With the exception of Chaplin, who managed to retain the autonomy of the great self-governing pioneers, the most distinguished directors in America were both victors and victims.
- Those superficial moralists who deplore the tendencies of certain movies to alarm them and, in the same breath, pretend that film is art, would do better to realize that, always alongside the art that pleases, "the art of seduction", springs the art of terror. Often we find pleasure in non-pleasurable forms.
- [on "The Innocents", 1961]: The movie's cardinal sin is the over-explanation of all the things James left beautifully in the dark.
- Real horror is a fragile, glass-boned thing.
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