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Monthly Archives: May 2011
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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Capsule Reviews: May 21 – 23
The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978) – 3/5 Hard on the heels of his 1976 hit Carrie, De Palma revisits the telekinesis/psychic powers genre with lamentably diminished returns. Granted, there are standout set-pieces – the opening abduction scene, a sequence … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey, alexandra hay, anouk aimee, autumn leaves, brian de palma, carrie, cinema, cinema reviews, cliff robertson, desmond harrington, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, gary lockwood, ghost story of yotsuya, guy de maupassant, jacques demy, jigoku, joan crawford, john ford, lorne greene, love object, mademoiselle fifi, model shop, movie, movie reviews, movies, nobuo nakagawa, rip torn, robert aldrich, robert wise, stagecoach, stanley kubrick, the fury, udo kier, val lewton, vera miles
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Capsule Reviews: May 18 – 21
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961) – 5/5 Olmi, who worked extensively in documentary films throughout his career, carries that format’s impartial aesthetic over to his depiction of Milan’s corporate dehumanization and vapidity. Following a young man – clearly a semi-autobiographical … Continue reading
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Tagged anatomy of hell, anne parillaud, bicycle thieves, catherine breillat, cinema, cinema reviews, ermanno olmi, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, il posto, in the realm of the senses, jean gabin, le jour se leve, marcel carne, michel simon, movie, movie reviews, movies, nagisa oshima, perfect love, pierre brasseur, port of shadows, roberto rossellini, rome open city, sex is comedy, vittorio de sica
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Capsule Reviews: May 16 – 18
Michael Kohlhaas (Volker Schlöndorff, 1969) – 3.5/5 English-language adaptation of the Heinrich von Kleist novella, set in Germany during the ferment of the Reformation (early 16th century). Horse-trader Kohlhaas (David Warner) runs afoul of a local aristocrat who swindles him … Continue reading
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Capsule Reviews: May 9 – 12
Lured (Douglas Sirk, 1947) – 2.5/5 Given the fact that glossy melodramas (or, at least, their trappings) were Sirk’s forte, it should come as no surprise that this early noir fails for the most part to achieve, let alone sustain, … Continue reading
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Capsule Reviews: May 1 – May 8
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) – 5/5 De Palma’s masterpiece succeeds brilliantly both as paranoid political thriller and personal rumination on the profound power – the sympathetic magic – that results from putting sounds and images together. Features one … Continue reading
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Tagged abel ferrara, alberto cavalcanti, anthony mann, au hasard balthazar, blow out, braveheart, brian de palma, catherine breillat, charles bukowski, charlotte rampling, chimes at midnight, chris penn, christopher walken, cinema, cinema reviews, claire trevor, coup de torchon, crazy love, dead bang, dennis o'keefe, dirk bogarde, drag me to hell, fat girl, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, fyodor dostoyevsky, griffith jones, guiseppe rotunno, in the realm of the senses, insidious, james wan, jigoku, john alton, john frankenheimer, jose mojica marins, kiss of death, le notti bianche, liliana cavani, louis malle, luchino visconti, marcello mastroianni, maria schell, marsha hunt, maurice ronet, michelangelo antonioni, mondo macabro, monica vitti, movie, movie reviews, movies, murder a la mod, nagisa oshima, nino rota, nobuo nakagawa, orson welles, pop. 1280, raw deal, raymond burr, red desert, richard harris, richard widmark, robert bresson, sam raimi, the damned, the fire within, the funeral, the killer inside me, the night porter, they made me a fugitive, this night i'll possess your corpse, touch of evil, trevor howard, vincent gallo, white nights, wild boys of the road, william wellman
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Capsule Reviews: April 23 – 30
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) – 4/5 Paul Mazursky’s screenwriting debut tells the uproarious story of a square Jewish lawyer Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) who tunes in, turns on and drops out with hippie Leigh Taylor-Young. Mazursky uses … Continue reading
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Capsule Reviews: April 13 – 22
Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998) – 3/5 “The Aronofsky touch” – percussive editing, obsessive concern for obsessive characters, repetition as narrative detail and thematic building block, and self-mutilation as redemptive technique – is fully on display in his first feature. Harboring … Continue reading
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