Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This, recently released on DVD, really is a must-see, a terrific piece of cinematic storytelling and a key early Hollywood work from the great Sirk. Dave Kehr gave it a nice write-up in the Times last Sunday, but I was...
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Catching up with a few things that fell between the cracks in recent weeks: A passable edition of Douglas Sirk’s “Summer Storm” from VCI Entertainment, a handsome transfer (with a questionable aspect ratio) of Luis Bunuel’s French-Mexican co-production “Death in the Garden” from Microcinema, and A&E’s stunning Blu-ray edition of Patrick McGoohan’s...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A look at Douglas Sirk’s dark, doom-laden social drama “Summer Storm,” a Blu-ray edition of “The Prisoner” and more.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Julian Fellowes, screenwriter, The Young Victoria, Gosford Park
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I’ll be traveling this weekend so I won’t be able to get the live link to my Times review up until Monday. But I’m sure you’re all eager to share your thoughts on this interesting collection from Sony, which includes seven Columbia features — two of them directed by Fuller (”The Crimson Kimono” and [...]
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
MCN's Gurus of Gold, finally up and running, have Up In The Air in the top Best Picture prediction slot, fine, followed by Precious and The Hurt Locker. Wait...they have A Serious Man in tenth place following the unseen Invictus, Nine and The Lovely Bones, and one slot behind Inglourious Basterds? Am I reading this correctly? Jokey-dokey, baseball-bat-and-gloppy-brain-matter Basterds -- a movie costarring...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Precious features plenty of off-putting images and attitudes, beginning with the movie’s straight-out-of-Rush-Limbaugh’s-nightmares vision of lazy welfare queens, and ending with the way the film seems to wallow in inner-city misery. It isn’t enough that director Lee Daniels and screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher (working from a controversial bestseller by Sapphire) present teenager...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Reviewed by Daryl Loomis Quote: "As only his second American film, the director displays a maturity in storytelling beyond his years, creating a very enjoyable picture."
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
paragraph class="noindent"> Hollywood has always been a haven for immigrants with talent. One of the greatest, Ernst Lubitsch, arrived there from Germany in the early nineteen-twenties, not pushed by political turmoil but pulled by money. American wealth is at the heart of his 1938 comedy, “Bluebeard’ . . .
Girish (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
One of the best and most fascinating things about cinema is the tension between its status as art and its status as industry. There is nothing new about this idea. But the way we construct the categories of 'popular cinema' and 'art cinema'--in starkly opposing fashion--holds them further apart than they really are or should be. It's good to be reminded of this on a regular basis. So, my ears always...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
You wouldn't expect a film about the young John Lennon to be a full-blown, Douglas Sirk-style weepie but that is what Sam Taylor-Wood delivers in her remarkably assured debut feature, Nowhere Boy – the closing film at the London Film Festival. Her achievement is to have made an emotionally charged family melodrama without blunting the edge and sarcasm that inevitably come when Lennon is your...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
J.C. Loophole of the Shelf passed on the interesting news that TCM has started a program where they will be providing Universal movies on demand . The movies available will include Paramount titles under Universal's control, with one of the first titles on sale being Paramount's terrific Christmas film REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940), starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. REMEMBER THE NIGHT will...
Plurter Article Sharing (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
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The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
By Dan Callahan [ A Time to Love and a Time to Die screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 9th, 2009 . It is available on foreign region DVD from Masters of Cinema . ] Against a black screen, a voice that seems to be imitating Orson Welles tells us about the great success of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front , and claims that the movie adaptation...
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Now I know that when it comes to cinema there is more (much much more) that I have NOT seen than I have. Glaring omissions in my film history knowledge. Filmmakers such as De Sica ( Bicycle Thief , one of my favourite films aside), early Ozu and Douglas Sirk immediately come to mind. So much to see and only a finite space to do so, but I am trying my damnest to catch up. There are those filmmakers...
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