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AFI Fest 2014: A “Fish and Cat” from Iran
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So this is the movie I took my Mom to. Mind you, that wasn’t the original plan. We planned to see “Mr. Turner,” Mike Leigh’s new film about the painter J. M. W. Turner. That was before we realized the film was 149 minutes, and we agreed we weren’t ready to commit to al read more
Bound by Flesh (3)
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Bound by Flesh, a 2012 documentary directed by Leslie Zemeckis (married to Robert Z.), is about the Hilton twins. Violet and Daisy were the most successful vaudeville act in their day—which is saying quite a lot. In 1908, Violet and Daisy were born conjoined and sold—yes, sold—by their mother read more
Why You Were Probably Wrong about Verbinski’s “Lone Ranger”
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Various critics have talked about why Gore Verbinski’s “Lone Ranger” (2013) deserved to do better, box-office-wise, than it did, about its interest in how events are turned into history and its visual delights, which are, I should think, inarguable. Thus far, I haven’t come across read more
The Heart of the Matter (1953): British Empire in Film Blogathon
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This post is my hopelessly late contribution to the excellent British Empire in Film Blogathon (thank you, crippling four-day migraine). Go check out some of the other fine entries! When you’re done reading this one, of course. George More O’Ferrall’s “The Heart of the Matter read more
“The Conformist” (1970) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
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Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970) is another movie I’ve been meaning to watch for ages and ages, another one of the films I know I should see. Unlike a lot of the great films one should see, this is one I immediately wanted to watch again. The Conformist is certainly a great film, a beauti read more
The Merry Widow Waltz: Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait
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This post is part of the Romantic Comedy Blogathon, hosted by Backlots and Carole & Co.! It’s hard to imagine Ernst Lubitsch, director of “The Love Parade” (1929), “Design for Living” (1933), and “Ninotchka” (1939), making something that isn’t a classy, urbane read more
SBIFF 2015: “Partners in Crime”
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O woe is me, attending film festivals is getting in the way of my watching classic film. Luckily, I’ve got several blogathons coming up (see banners at right) to get me back into the classic swing of things. Before we return to our regularly scheduled programming, however, I’d like to te read more
“Cactus Flower” (1969): An Unexpected Gem
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Unexpected gem: “Cactus Flower,” directed by Gene Saks, viewed thanks to Turner Classic Movies. Saks, who also directed “Barefoot in the Park” (1967) and “The Odd Couple” (1968), worked a fair amount with writer/producer Neil Simon. More recently, he played Woody read more
Army of Shadows (L’armée des ombres, 1969), Part 2: Snoopathon
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville is famous for his lack of female characters, and the few women who do populate his universe frankly don’t have much character. Women are generally superfluous in Melville’s films; he is fascinated by (and makes fascinating) relationships among men. So the fact that read more
New series – A Random Weekly Roundup (3)
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I’m going to try a regular Sunday series: a weekly roundup of interesting movie tidbits–essays, posts, news, etcetera. I’ll keep it short this week, with three items. First up, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, second time around. Here’s the trailer for Ben Stiller’s new read more
Madeleine Carroll Blogathon: I Was a Spy (1933) (3)
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One of the great pleasures of blogathons is discovering an old film, or an actor, or director and realizing that there’s still so, so many wonderful classic films yet to see. It’s sort of like knowing that there’s still a bunch of Graham Greene novels I haven’t read. Maybe t read more
Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967): The Social Art of Tativille
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(and then I got horribly sick—children are Petri dishes of contagion —so it’s only, uh, three weeks late) Anyway, check out the plethora of great posts from the Blogathon! French filmmaker Jacques Tati was only able to make six feature-length films, but each film, right from the beginning read more
Sunday Random Roundup for August 18, 2013 (3)
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Welcome back, dear readers, for this week’s edition of the Sunday Random Roundup. Big Films in Other Places Remember last week’s rant about the state of film distribution in the U.S.? Well, here’s some potentially good news: Local films seem to be outdoing Hollywood “blockbus read more
The House on Trubnaya (1928): Russia in Classic Film Blogathon, Part 2
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Thanks to Movies, Silently and Flicker Alley for hosting the Blogathon! Despite what “Aelita: Queen of Mars” (1924) might have lead you to believe, Bolshevism did not destroy the Russian sense of humor. Although the “message” of “The House on Trubnaya” (1928) read more
Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960): Take Me to Your Cinema!
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Part of The British Invasion Blogathon. I first saw this peculiar film about ten years ago, sometime when I was still in grad school. I can’t remember why; I must have stumbled across it at the very fine Four Star Video Heaven, which is—somewhat miraculously—still in business. Neither am I sure read more
Sunday Random Roundup for September 1, 2013 (3)
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Greetings and salutations, dear readers. It’s been another week, somehow. First, a little blog-related news. I have plans for some posts about specific films that I hope to have ready sometime this week. Second, great news about the Alice Guy-Blaché Kickstarter project I mentioned last week: read more
Pre-Code Blogathon: Murder at the Vanities (1934)—Murder Is the Least of It
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The following is my contribution to the fabulous Pre-Code Blogathon, hosted by Shadows and Satin and Pre-Code.com. Even if you’ve seen some of the now-classic pre-code films, like “Night Nurse” (1931), “Freaks” (1932), or “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” read more
King and Country (1964): World War I Blogathon
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This post is a part of the fantastic World War I in Classic Film blogathon hosted by the always intriguing Movies Silently and Silent-ology – go read the other excellent posts! One of the great—and somewhat overlooked—films about World War I was originally made for television in Britai read more
Wherefore Art Thou Zombie? “World War Z” Takes Another Shot at the Apocalypse
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The Husband does not like zombie movies. Neither is The Husband a fan of apocalypse movies, though he’s perfectly happy reading Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. Which is, let me assure you, much less action-packed than even the worst zombie movie. Unlike The Husband, I am a fan of zombie read more
Peter Lorre’s Dr. Gogol in Mad Love (1935): The Great Villain Blogathon
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Like most movie watchers of my generation, I probably first saw the actual Peter Lorre in “Casablanca” (1942). He doesn’t have a lot of screen time, but he’s hard to forget. My first exposure to Peter Lorre, however, and perhaps also like a lot of folks my generation, was th read more