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Notes on “Ford v Ferrari”

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Ford v Ferrari” is nearly 200 minutes long, ludicrous for a car-racing flick, and its narrative incorporates a fair amount of padding. The scenes centering on the family of driver Ken Miles are particularly unnecessary. Watching … Continue reading →

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Juxtaposin’: Distractions

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

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Notes on “Hail the Conquering Hero”

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: A young man rejected by the Marines for chronic hay fever becomes a celebrity in his hometown when he’s taken for a hero of Guadalcanal. The fraud is perpetrated not by the hay fever sufferer, named … Continue reading →

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Notes on “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith”

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Fred Schepisi’s unsettled and peculiarly wrenching “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith,” though it’s finally available on disc, isn’t discussed much among movie buffs. It’s too bleak and too at odds with contemporary values for broad acceptance. … Continue reading →

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Notes on “The Red Violin”

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Like writer-director François Girard’s other well-known picture, “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,” “The Red Violin” is a series of short subjects. Here, though, Girard attempts to link these subjects into a mystical narrative based … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Iceman”

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Iceman,” released in 1984, has a fairly cornball screenplay, but it’s elevated by its director and star. That star is John Lone. Playing a Neanderthal who is unfrozen after 40,000 years on ice, Lone is passionate … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Cluny Brown”

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 1946 “Cluny Brown” is probably the most offhand thing director Ernst Lubitsch did during the sound era. It’s so offhand that it’s almost Buñuelian. Certainly, it’s the most surreal of Lubitsch’s late works. Jennifer Jones … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Cruising”

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: It’s possible that writer-director William Friedkin allowed “Cruising” to go so far, to be so extreme, in part because he felt that his experience directing the 1970 “The Boys in the Band,” often acknowledged as the … Continue reading →

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Notes on “The Exterminating Angels”

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 2006 “The Exterminating Angels,” the middle part of what I take to be writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s trilogy on the subject of the modern young woman, is too severe to be effective as trash and too … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Tuff Turf”

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 1985 “Tuff Turf” is an intriguing cult item and a key entry in the James Spader canon. Spader’s Morgan moves to L.A. from Connecticut. His Angeleno friends speak of Connecticut the way a fur trader … Continue reading →

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