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Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman, 1976)
Read my review of the DVD release of Ingmar Bergman’s hitherto hard-to-see Face to Face (1976) on Slant Magazine.
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Tagged erland josephson, face to face, ingmar bergman, liv ullmann, scenes from a marriage, sven nykvist
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The Films of Anthony Mann (Part 3): Winchester ’73, The Naked Spur, The Man From Laramie
The first of five films to team director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart, Winchester ’73 (1950) begins with Lin McAdam (Stewart) and “High-Spade” Wilson (Millard Mitchell) tracking killer Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally) into Dodge City, Kansas, arriving in … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony mann, arthur kennedy, borden chase, cathy o'donnell, cinemascope, colorado, donald crisp, durango, film, film review, james stewart, janet leigh, jimmy stewart, july 4th, king lear, lin mcadam, millard mitchell, ralph meeker, rifle, robert ryan, shelley winters, stephen mcnally, technicolor, the man from laramie, the naked spur, western, western review, winchester '73
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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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“Neverending Story”: The Immortal Story (Orson Welles, 1968)
Based on a story drawn from Isak Dinesen‘s collection Anecdotes of Destiny and originally produced for French television, which explains its abbreviated c. 58 minute run-time, Orson Welles‘ The Immortal Story originally played in stateside theaters as one half of … Continue reading
“If They Move, Kill ‘Em!”: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
Preeminent among the Revisionist Westerns, The Wild Bunch also stands as an exemplar of the Twilight Western, elegiac films that explored the “closing of the frontier” theme, Sam Peckinpah‘s own The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1971) being another prime example. … Continue reading
The Films of Anthony Mann (Part 1): Desperate, The Black Book (aka Reign of Terror), Devil’s Doorway, The Tall Target
After trying to get through the thoroughly old-fashioned Two O’Clock Courage (1945), an ideal cure for insomnia interesting only for its opening dolly-in and crane shot of an injured Tom Conway standing at a crossroads, bleeding from a nasty head … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony mann, audrey long, broken arrow, desperate, devil's doorway, dick powell, follow me quietly, george diskant, j. hoberman, john alton, john ford, john wayne, louis calhern, militant liberty, nicholas ray, on dangerous ground, paula raymond, raw deal, raymond burr, reign of terror, richard basehart, robert cummings, robert taylor, steve brodie, the black book, the dream life, the tall target, the wings of eagles, they live by night, tom conway, two o'clock courage, ward bond
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“Nobody Loses All the Time”: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
True, taken all for all, Alfredo Garcia may not be Peckinpah’s best work–that right’s reserved for the technical, thematic and generic revolution that was The Wild Bunch (1969)–but without a doubt it has to be considered a masterwork, as well … Continue reading
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Tagged ball of cable hogue, bring me the head of alfredo garcia, easy rider, emilio fernandez, gig young, isela vega, john huston, junior bonner, kris kristofferson, pat garrett and billy the kid, sam peckinpah, straw dogs, the treaure of the sierra madre, the wild bunch, warren oates
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“Within You Without You”: Outside In (Stephen van Vuuren, Ongoing)
Allow me the indulgence to evangelize a little: I’d like to draw your attention to local filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren’s phenomenal ongoing project, Outside In, an “IMAX film made in a basement,” as Stephen likes to put it. Consisting of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, carl sagan, outside in, stanley kubrick, stephen van vuuren
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“Up in Smoke”: Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010)
The fact that this French Canadian Oscar-bait was adapted from a play makes perfect sense: Not that it feels claustrophobic or “stage-bound,” thus necessitating “opening up.” Rather, each and every major “revelation” (and by the film’s third act they’re whizzing … Continue reading
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Tagged denis villeneuve, dogtooth, in a better world, incendies, of gods and men, suzanne bier, xavier beauvois
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