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‘Master of the House’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on May 19, 2014
It’s telling that the Criterion Collection touts Master of the House
as a comedy. So regularly austere are the more popularly known works of
Danish great Carl Theodor Dreyer, that perhaps in comparison, yes, this
is at times funny. As a standard comedy, it’s admittedly weak; as a
dra read more
‘Viridiana’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on May 19, 2014
The Cannes Film Festival has long been a venue to court controversy, and filmmaker Luis Buñuel was likewise one who consistently reveled in the divisive. At the 1961 festival, Buñuel brought his latest release, Viridiana, and the results were spectacular, and spectacularly contentious. The read more
‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on May 19, 2014
Gene
Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Busby Berkeley, Vincente Minnelli,
Arthur Freed: names synonymous with the movie musical. Missing from this
standard list is a key contributor to the form, the French director
Jacques Demy. Perhaps part of the reason for his widespread
unfamiliarity, eve read more
‘Ace in the Hole’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on May 19, 2014
Ace in the Hole
is a quintessential Billy Wilder movie. Though largely ignored upon its
initial release, this 1951 feature bears all the hallmarks one
associates with Wilder’s best work: cynicism, humor, terrific
performances, sharp dialogue, and impeccable direction. Here, to keep
within read more
‘Sabrina’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on May 3, 2014
The past few weeks have been good for Humphrey Bogart on Blu-ray. The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The African Queen were recently rereleased and assembled for the Best of Bogart Collection, and now, Sabrina,
one of the legendary star’s final films, has re read more
‘Men in War’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on May 3, 2014
Director Anthony Mann was a specialist at genre filmmaking. From early crime dramas like T-Men and Raw Deal, to historical epics like El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire,
he seemed to have a knack for working within — and working with — the
conventions of a given generic formula. H read more
Martin Scorsese's ‘The King of Comedy’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 19, 2014
It’s
understandable if some viewers were a little surprised to learn Martin
Scorsese was behind the comedic masterpiece that was last year’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
While many of his films have had their fair share of black humor, he
had never made what could be considered an outrig read more
'Rififi'
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 19, 2014
The
blacklist that shrouded the Hollywood community in suspicion, paranoia,
and tragedy during the 1940s and ’50s, a steadily spreading outgrowth
of the tactics formulated and executed by the House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC), would leave its tarnishing mark on many in
the fil read more
'Autumn Sonata'
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 19, 2014
“A
mother and a daughter. What a terrible combination of feelings and
confusion and destruction.” So says Eva (Liv Ullmann) toward the end of
Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata (1978). More than any other line
of dialogue, in what is a remarkably written film, this gets to the
cru read more
'God’s Little Acre'
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 19, 2014
When he wasn’t genre hopping from Film Noir
to Westerns to epic spectacles and war films, the perpetually
underrated Anthony Mann was mixing conventions and mingling styles
amongst more indefinable works. These were films like Reign of Terror (1949), The Tall Target (1951), Serenade (1956), read more
‘Persona’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 5, 2014
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
is probably the great Swedish filmmaker’s most perplexing and
thought-provoking work; it’s certainly his most surreal. Unusual imagery
and curious narrative developments aren’t necessarily foreign to the
rest of his filmography, but they have neve read more
‘Hatari!’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 22, 2014
Hatari!
is essentially about a group of men with a job to do, which makes it a
perfect vehicle for John Wayne and Howard Hawks. Hawks reveled in
stories about professional people who take their job seriously, and
more often than not, Wayne played a character who was the best man for
the j read more
‘El Dorado’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 16, 2014
When El Dorado
was first shown in 1966, the Western in its classical form was
beginning to disappear from American cinema. John Ford, synonymous with
the genre, released his last feature that year, and El Dorado
would be the second-to-last film by its own legendary director, Howard
Hawks. The W read more
‘Foreign Correspondent’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 22, 2014
As
if his British films weren’t evidence enough of his talent, Alfred
Hitchcock made quite the impression when he came to Hollywood in 1940.
His first picture in the states, Rebecca, was nominated for Best Picture at the 1941 Academy Awards. So was his second, Foreign Correspondent, also re read more
Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Nostalghia’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 15, 2014
Nostalghia
was Andrei Tarkovsky’s penultimate film, and the 1983 movie, made for
Italian television, has the tone and scope of a work of contemplation
and austere topicality, not at all uncommon for an artist in his or her
later portions of life. The notion of this frequent tendency, to br read more
Argento’s ‘Dracula 3D’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 15, 2014
More than his fellow giallo
maestros (Bava, Fulci, Martino, and others), Dario Argento has had to
live and work in the burdensome shadow of his earlier successes. After
nearly two decades of exceptional films boasting glorious cinematic
artistry and blood-soaked thrills, Argento established quit read more
Altman’s Unsung ’70s
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 15, 2014
Director
Robert Altman had his fair share of ups and downs. The oscillation
between works widely lauded and those typically forgotten is prevalent
throughout his exceptionally diverse career. This was — and still is —
certainly the case with his 1970s output. This decade of remarkabl read more
‘Jules and Jim’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 15, 2014
In François Truffaut’s debut feature, The 400 Blows, widely seen as the flagship production of the French Nouvelle Vague, or “New Wave,” he was able to convey a representation of youth in a very specific era and, at that time, in a very unique way. Autobiographical as the 1959 read more
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project - Part 2
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 10, 2014
The
three titles rounding out The Criterion Collection set showcasing six
films preserved and newly remastered through Martin Scorsese’s World
Cinema Project are markedly different, not only from each other, but
from the three features covered last week in this column. Dry Summer, Trances, read more
‘Sunrise’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 10, 2014
William Fox had seen Faust, Nosferatu, and The Last Laugh,
and on the basis of these German masterworks, he brought their creator,
F.W. Murnau, to Hollywood. What he got was a truly distinct cinematic
vision, which was what he had in mind: something to set a few Fox
features apart from the other read more