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Category Archives: Movies
“Zero Dark Thirty”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Effective enough espionage procedural in the vein of Paul Greengrass’s United 93, to which it makes an appropriate bookend. It’s a grunt’s-eye view shot in the hyper-edited, faux-documentary style that continues to pass for “realism.” Dektoring is now twenty years … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Carl Dreyer, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, Leslie Dektor, Paul Greengrass, Renée Jeanne Falconetti, SEAL Team Six
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Not Quite Up To Par
Sax von Stroheim writes: Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed, 1940) This isn’t a bad movie, but it suffers a bit because it isn’t a great movie, either, and it brings to mind too many other movies that are great … Continue reading
“Silver River”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I watched this mid-period Raoul Walsh western a while back on the recommendation of co-blogger Sax von Stroheim. It stars Errol Flynn as a disgraced Union officer who’s decided to live in a purely selfish manner. In … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics
Tagged Errol Flynn, movies, Raoul Walsh, Silver River, westerns
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David Chase’s Small Movie for the Big Screen
Sax von Stroheim writes: Not Fade Away (David Chase, 2012) A few different ways into talking about this movie: As you probably notice, I pay a bit of attention to current movies, but, even so, I completely missed that this … Continue reading
“Django Unchained”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The latest in Tarantino’s Minorities Get Revenge on White People Series, the director said on Fresh Air that if the audience doesn’t cheer Django at the end, he’s failed. Well, the audience I saw it with didn’t cheer. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christoph Waltz, Jaime Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, westerns, Worst Director Cameo Ever
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Some Oscar Counterprogramming
Sax von Stroheim writes: I was thinking of writing up a snarky take on the Academy Award nominations, but then decided I didn’t really want to participate in that even as a joke. (I believe the official Uncouth Reflections editorial … Continue reading
Moviemaking Linkage
Paleo Retiree writes: How much cocaine can one movie consume? What’s it like to direct Lindsay Lohan?
Posted in Linkathons, Movies, Performers
Tagged cocaine, drugs, John Belushi, Lindsay Lohan, moviemaking, The Blue Brothers
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“Since You Went Away,” a Culture’s Dreams, and the Agee-DOS Dosado
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Since You Went Away” doesn’t have a great reputation among filmbuffs, and it’s not hard to see why: it’s broad, sentimental, and downright propagandistic in its treatment of small-town American life (at nearly three hours, it’s also looooonnnngggg). … Continue reading
Not My Favorite Horse Racing Movie
Sax von Stroheim writes: Dead Cert (Tony Richardson, 1974) Something the Brits do pretty well: take their decent-to-classic mystery novels and turn them into solid-to-great TV programmes and movies. It’s rare to come across one that doesn’t have at least … Continue reading
Today’s Blockbusters . . . Yesterday!
Fenster writes: A funny and entertaining re-imagining of modern blockbusters had they been done in the 1950’s.
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