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“Thomas Graal’s Best Film”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Swedish film pioneer Mauritz Stiller is known mainly for his connection to Greta Garbo; it was he who brought her to MGM. But in the 1910s and early ’20s he was a major force in movies, perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Gustaf Molander, Karin Molander, Mauritz Stiller, movies, Romantic Comedy, Silent Film, Sweden, Thomas Graal's Best Film, Vertigo, Victor Sjostrom
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Douglas Fairbanks and “When the Clouds Roll By”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This Douglas Fairbanks project, the first directing effort of Victor Fleming, stands at the nexus of a number of popular art traditions. It dates from 1919, a year prior to Fairbanks’ swashbuckling debut in “The Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Movies, Performers
Tagged Buster Keaton, Comedy, Douglas Fairbanks, Fred Astaire, Georges Melies, Harold Lloyd, movies, Silent Movies, Surrealism, Victor Fleming, Winsor McCay
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“The Sadist”
Paleo Retiree writes: Ultra low-budget — shot in two weeks for $33,000 — b&w psycho-killer thriller with Arch Hall, Jr. as the nutcase, written and directed by James Landis, and set almost entirely in an automobile junkyard in the California … Continue reading
“Tiny Furniture”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Lena Dunham has deflected attempts to categorize her work as mumblecore. Watching her “Tiny Furniture” I understood why: the picture is tightly scripted and controlled, a caterpillar-like series of awkward-comic vignettes that never lapses into navel gazing … Continue reading
“Bandits of Orgosolo”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I enjoyed this late Neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Seta. (What a name for an Italian filmmaker to be cursed with!) It deals with the attempts of a Sardinian shepherd to evade the law after … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Bandits of Orgosolo, movies, Neorealism, Robert Flaherty, Taviani Brothers, The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio De Seta
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Joss Whedon’s Disney’s “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sax von Stroheim writes: I finally caught up with the year’s biggest hit. I’m a longtime reader of super-hero comics, and while the Avengers comics by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, et al. aren’t my favorites from Marvel’s Silver Age, I … Continue reading
“Life Without Principle”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Johnnie To’s latest, entitled “Life Without Principle,” combines the financial-and-business-sector setting of his last film, the romantic comedy “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” with his customary gangster milieu. It’s organized around the Greek debt crisis, which … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics
Tagged Hong Kong, Johnnie To, Life Without Principle, movies
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DVD Review: “The Departed”
Paleo Retiree writes: I sat all the way through Martin Scorsese’s 2006 movie even though I never felt more than half-involved with it. It’s a remake of the Hong Kong thriller “Infernal Affairs,” and it’s in Scorsese’s exuberant, burning-in-hell, “Goodfellas” … Continue reading
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