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Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)
“De Palma’s fever dream of fear and desire may never get the deluxe Blu-ray transfer it so richly deserves, but Dressed to Kill still goes straight for the jugular after all these years.” Read my review of the new Blu-ray … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred hitchcock, brian de palma, carrie, dressed to kill, psycho, sisters, vertigo
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The Films of Anthony Mann (Part 2): Railroaded, Raw Deal, Border Incident, Side Street
One of three films noir Anthony Mann released in 1947 alone (T-Men and Desperate being the other two), Railroaded is a solid, visually exciting genre effort, though at bottom it’s a fairly conventional police procedural, with just enough noir emphasis … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred hitchcock, anthony mann, border incident, cathy o'donnell, claire trevor, dennis o'keefe, farley granger, fritz lang, george murphy, john alton, john ireland, marsha hunt, nicholas ray, railroaded, raw deal, ricardo montalban, side street, the big heat
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Capsule Reviews: June 7 – 9
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, 1947) – 5/5 One of the great exemplars of Technicolor cinematography (provided by Jack Cardiff, who also lensed Powell’s equally ravishing follow-up The Red Shoes [1948]) – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. A … Continue reading
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Tagged alberto cavalcanti, alec guinness, alfred hitchcock, benjamin christensen, black narcissus, blue velvet, charles dickens, charles laughton, charlotte zwerin, cinema, cinema reviews, clair de lune, cure, dario argento, david lean, david lynch, deborah kerr, debussy, elton john, eye of the needle, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, fritz lang, giallo, graham greene, great expectation, guy maddin, hammer horror, haxan, house by the river, jack cardiff, jagged edge, jean simmons, jimmy sangster, katherine ross, ken russell, kiki dee, kiyoshi kurosawa, louis hayward, mario bava, michael powell, movie, movie reviews, movies, my winnipeg, night of the hunter, nunsploitation, psycho, pulse, richard marquand, sam elliott, slasher film, ten little indians, the devils, the legacy, the red shoes, thelonious monk: straight no chaser, tokyo sonata, went the day well?, woman in the window
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Capsule Reviews: May 30 – June 2
A Generation (Andrzej Wajda, 1955) – 3/5 Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957) – 5/5 Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958) – 5/5 A Generation – the first installment in Andrzej Wajda’s War Trilogy – portrays the experiences of an idealistic young … Continue reading
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Tagged a generation, above suspicion, alfred hitchcock, andrzej wajda, arthur penn, ashes and diamonds, black narcissus, cinema, cinema reviews, conrad veidt, dick powell, douglas fairbanks, dustin hoffman, eugen schufftan, faye dunaway, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, fred macmurray, it happened tomorrow, joan crawford, john ford, kanal, linda darnell, little big man, los olividados, luis bunuel, michael powell, movie, movie reviews, movies, raoul walsh, rene clair, roman polanski, sabu, simon of the desert, the graduate, the man who knew too much, the pianist, the searchers, the thief of bagdad, under the roofs of paris, wajda's war trilogy
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Capsule Reviews: May 23 – 26
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, 1972) – 4/5 Trading the situational naturalism of Five Easy Pieces (1970) for a more abstract, even allegorical, approach, Marvin Gardens (named for a piece of real estate on a Monopoly board, and … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures of robinson crusoe, alfred hitchcock, basic instinct, bob rafelson, bruce dern, caspar david friedrich, cave of forgotten dreams, cinema, cinema reviews, death in the garden, ellen burstyn, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, heart of glass, jack nicholson, jagged edge, joe eszterhas, luis bunuel, michel piccoli, movie, movie reviews, movies, paul verhoeven, showgirls, simone signoret, the king of marvin gardens, vertigo, werner herzog
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Symbolic Exchange And Death
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) This essay will examine a complex series of interlocking metaphors, both verbal and visual, which recur throughout Hitchcock’s Psycho and which articulate a concept that Jean Baudrillard has labelled “symbolic exchange.” This notion – arising from … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, alfred hitchcock, anthony perkins, cinema, cinema reviews, claude chabrol, erich rohmer, ferdinand saussure, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, georges bataille, janet leigh, jean baudrillard, karl marx, marcel mauss, movie, movie reviews, movies, psycho, shower scene
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