Category Archives: Movies

Movie Still Du Jour

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Riton Liebman and Carole Laure in Bertrand Blier’s GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS Click on the image to enlarge. Related Variety film critic Peter Debruge thinks Blier is due for a revival. I shared my reaction to Blier’s GOING … Continue reading →

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Linkage

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Roger Scruton’s list of what conservatives believe wouldn’t go over well with many American Republicans, I suspect. More. Fred Reed recalls a less-regulated America. I grew up under not-very-different circumstances. Scott Chaffin submits to a brain MRI. … Continue reading →

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“Bernard and Doris”

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: There was a lot about this 2006, made-for-HBO movie that I loved. It’s a very small-scale, low-budget rhapsody on a historic fact: late in life, the famous tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who had never managed to have … Continue reading →

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“Eugene Onegin”, Five Ways

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 novel-poem is one one the acknowledged masterpieces of Russian literature. Its moodiness, beauty, and sheer Russianness, as well as its themes of irrepressible young love and opportunities missed, have made it popular for adaptations … Continue reading →

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“Summer Clouds”

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 1958 “Summer Clouds” is a sprawling but tightly structured work, one that has an almost mathematical precision to it. Chikage Awashima plays Yae, a war widow doing what she can to sustain herself, her son, and her mother-in-law on a … Continue reading →

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Movie Posters by Angelo Cesselon

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: One of the great artists of Italian movie posters, Angelo Cesselon was known for his energetic, brushy style and his ability to nail celebrity likenesses. It’s no surprise, then, that he went on to a distinguished … Continue reading →

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Opening Titles Du Jour

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Stanely Donen‘s CHARADE (1963). Titles by Maurice Binder, music by Henry Mancini.

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Notes on “Eega”

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In “Eega,” one of the most successful Telugu-language films of all time, a recently  murdered young man, named Nani, is reincarnated as a housefly, then sets out to knock off his killer — who also happens … Continue reading →

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“Edouard et Caroline”

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Directed by Jacques Becker in 1951, this concise, smartly worked-out marital farce is a cynical companion piece to Becker’s earlier “Antoine et Antoinette.” When Daniel Gelin’s Edouard allows his wife Caroline to talk him into giving a piano … Continue reading →

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“Romulus, My Father”

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: The debut directorial effort by actor Richard Roxburgh, Romulus, My Father (2007) is a grave and beautiful, if flawed, movie based on a real-life memoir. Romulus Gaita (Eric Bana) is a Yugoslav immigrant to 1960 Australia with a … Continue reading →

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