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Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo
Notes on “Joan the Maid”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I can’t think of a movie that feels more authentically Medieval than Jacques Rivette’s 1994 “Joan the Maid,” an interpretation of the Joan of Arc story in two very long parts. In it, Rivette, always attentive … Continue reading
Posted in History, Movies
Tagged Film, France, Jacques Rivette, Joan of Arc, Joan the Maid, Middle Ages, movies, Sandrine Bonnaire
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I Require the Blood of Fifty Children
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The Caliph, however, whose ideas were confused, and whose head was embarrassed, went on administering justice at haphazard; till at length the prime vizir, perceiving his situation, hit upon a sudden expedient to interrupt the audience … Continue reading
Notes on “Aquaman”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s something gleeful, almost lightfooted, in the tacky gigantism of “Aquaman.” Director James Wan rejects the would-be seriousness and most of the cynicism that characterize Marvel’s superhero films in favor of kitsch and can-do cheeriness. Like … Continue reading
It is Like Losing a Limb
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Monday, November 17. This was a black day in our calendar. At seven o’clock in the morning, it being our watch below, we were aroused from a sound sleep by the cry of “All hands ahoy! … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged Richard Henry Dana, sailing, Two Years Before the Mast
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A Witness Like Homer
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Then [Alexander] came to Phrygia. When he reached the river Scamander, into which Achilles had sprung, he leapt in also. And when he saw the seven-layered shield of Ajax, which was not as large or … Continue reading
Rather to Bear and Forbear
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Scythrop, attending one day the summons to dinner, found in the drawing-room his friend Mr Cypress the poet, whom he had known at college, and who was a great favourite of Mr Glowry. Mr Cypress said, … Continue reading
Notes on “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: One of Preston Sturges’ least known works, “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock” is a wry and tenderhearted tribute to American failure — a sort of inverse Horatio Alger story. Sturges uses the movie to comment on … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Comedy, Edgar Kennedy, Film, Harold Lloyd, Margaret Hamilton, movies, Preston Sturges, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
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Notes on “The Island at the Top of the World”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There is little build-up to the adventure story presented in the 1974 “The Island at the Top of the World.” Almost immediately after their initial meeting, an aristocrat and an archaeologist set out for the Arctic … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged adventure, Agneta Eckemyr, David Hartman, Disney, Film, movies, Robert Stevenson, The Island at the Top of the World
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Notes on “Roma”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In “Roma,” writer-director Alfonso Cuarón rationalizes chic aesthetic loop-the-loops by pretending to social consciousness. The movie concerns an indigenous maid who serves a white Mexican family. Though critics have compared it to Italian Neorealism, its canned … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics
Tagged Alfonso Cuaron, Film, Mexico, movies, Roma, Yalitza Aparicio
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Notes on “First Reformed”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “First Reformed” has cozied up to elite movie reviewers (to the extent that such still exist) through its surface resemblance to the films of Bresson and Bergman. In it they imagine they see an expression of … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Philosophy and Religion
Tagged Ethan Hawke, Film, First Reformed, movies, Paul Schrader
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