Tag Archives: Film

“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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Notes on “Snow Country”

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: An exceptionally beautiful melodrama that, though it never delivers on its narrative and thematic promises, is the kind of thing that seems to live in your memory even as you’re watching it. Director Shiro Toyoda is reminiscent … Continue reading →

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Divas

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Bessie Smith appeared in only this one movie; it has an all-black cast and runs 16 minutes. Whatever one might say about the limitations of the story line, derived from the W.C. Handy song by the … Continue reading →

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Notes on “That’s My Man”

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This late Frank Borzage picture is about a compulsive gambler (Don Ameche) whose mojo is all bound up with the fate of a thoroughbred that he raises from a colt. Borzage and screenwriters Steve Fisher and Bradley … Continue reading →

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Reverse Engineering Hollywood

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Epaminondas

epiminondas writes: So how many genres and sub-genres do you think there are when it comes to forming a database of Hollywood films? 200? 500? 1,000? Actually, it’s north of 90,000.

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Juxtaposin’: Stair Singing

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

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Movie Posters of the French New Wave (Other Countries Edition)

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I’ve already posted galleries devoted to French and Italian posters of the French New Wave. This entry is the last in the series: it focuses on New Wave posters released in countries other than France and Italy. … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me”

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me” is ostensibly a documentary about ’70s cult band Big Star, and it’s good at being that, but its stealth subjects are the state of rock ‘n’ roll in the ’70s … Continue reading →

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Three Erotic Tarzans

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912): To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves. From the description which Clayton and her father and Mr. Philander had given her, she knew that … Continue reading →

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RIP Billy Jack

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I saw that Tom Laughlin died the other day. He was mostly known for playing Billy Jack in a series of films, the most famous being the first two: the 1967 “The Born Losers” and the 1971 “Billy Jack.” You … Continue reading →

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