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Safe Haven
Sax von Stroheim writes: I keep looking for the modern day equivalent of those Douglas Sirk-Ross Hunter movies: weepies, melodramas, and “women’s pictures” that are stylish and smart without skimping on the sentimentality. I haven’t found one yet, but I … Continue reading
“Film might be at its best . . .”
Glynn Marshes writes: “. . . when it’s telling no story at all.” From the video essay The Art of Editing in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a professorial analysis of the Trio scene. (Very professorial. Be prepared … Continue reading
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The Camera Loves…
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Click on the image to enlarge. …Anna May Wong. Photograph by George Hurrell, 1938. Related Virginia Postrel on how Hurrell helped to define Hollywood glamour.
“Broke”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I really like the documentary work of Billy Corben. He’s got a feel for muckraking sensationalism as well as a knack for weaving talking-head interviews into dense, colorful swathes of information. You can sense his inquisitiveness, … Continue reading
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A Modern Recording of Mussorgsky for Disney’s “Night On Bald Mountain”
epiminondas writes: I guess Halloween is as good a time as any to take another look at the Mussorgsky piece in Disney’s 1940 film masterpiece Fantasia. However, the music score has been replaced with a modern recording. I think the … Continue reading
Actors (etc.) in Hats and Headgear …
Sherbrooke writes: Myrna Loy–the early years. .
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David, Victor, and Stanley
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“Respiro”
Paleo Retiree writes: Three and a half stars. Set on the harshly beautiful Italian island of Lampedusa, this 2002 film is EZ neorealism — and I don’t mean that as a putdown. For much of its length, the film is … Continue reading
Movie Still Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Mae Clark and Boris Karloff in James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN
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