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1 jess_l_amortell Offline Send Email Jun 13, 2003
7:32 pm
Has anyone compiled a list of reasonably serious Yahoo groups devoted to individual directors (e.g. "Rohmer-L" and "MacGuffin")?...
2 Fred Camper
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Jun 13, 2003
8:10 pm
I've long been an admirer of the features of Paul Wendkos, or at least some of them. His first, "The Burglar," has a stunning Kane-related opening, and is...
3 jess_l_amortell Offline Send Email Jun 13, 2003
8:36 pm
... a timely message, since "The Burglar" is playing at MoMA/Gramercy tomorrow (preceded by a Brakhage program and followed by Melies and Ulmer)....
4 Zach Campbell
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Jun 14, 2003
12:53 am
... How do you feel about TARAWA BEACHHEAD? I have that, as well as MEPHISTO WALTZ, on video (quite possibly in the original aspect ratio at least). I think...
5 Fred Camper
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Jun 14, 2003
1:05 am
... Zach, I hope in this friendlier group I won't have to rant on and on about video. I appreciate your acknowledgment of my views here, and I'll try not to...
6 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 14, 2003
1:21 am
... That's interesting. Why do you think this? Is it because the image is smaller? Really, if you sit close to the flatbed, the image subtends about the...
7 Fred Camper
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Jun 14, 2003
2:03 am
Dan Sallitt, citing my claim that the Steenbeck is "arguably no better ... No, and I guess I think it is somewhat better, But the Steenbeck renders the image...
8 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 14, 2003
3:52 am
... I too know nothing about Warren, but I remember Sarris putting his HELLGATE on his list of worthwhile 1952 films in THE AMERICAN CINEMA. - Dan...
9 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 14, 2003
4:09 am
... I'm a little more mixed on Wendkos than you are. The only two semi-late Wendkoses I've seen that you haven't mentioned are 1970's CANNON FOR CORDOBA and...
10 ptonguette@...
peter_tonguette Offline Send Email
Jun 14, 2003
4:17 am
Okay, I can't resist a little self-parody as a way to begin my tenure on the new group. How do people feel about posthumous-period Preminger? That is, his...
11 Fred Camper
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Jun 14, 2003
6:20 am
... Actually, these are both pretty weak. I struggled to see the Wendkos in "Cannon for Cordoba" and remember liking some brief sequences, but it was a...
12 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 14, 2003
5:32 pm
... I can't see a lot of Hawks, or a lot of value, in FAZIL either, though it has more defenders than TRENT'S LAST CASE. I'm the world's biggest Hawks fan, but...
13 ptonguette@...
peter_tonguette Offline Send Email
Jun 14, 2003
8:58 pm
... "A Girl In Every Port" is actually the only silent Hawks I've seen so far and it certainly seemed full of signature Hawksian themes and situations. If I ...
14 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 14, 2003
9:31 pm
... Yeah. EL DORADO actually works pretty well as the summation film. - Dan...
15 Fred Camper
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Jun 15, 2003
1:51 am
Dan, Oops, I should have said "sound Hawks films." I agree with your assessment of the silents. That peculiar ineffable quality in which the tiniest of...
16 Jaime N. Christley
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Jun 15, 2003
2:42 am
... devoted to individual directors (e.g. "Rohmer-L" and "MacGuffin")? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lancelotdulac/ Jaime p.s. Hey everybody. Hawks' THE...
17 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 15, 2003
6:17 am
... Absolutely. I'm really fond of THE CROWD ROARS - truth be told, I think it's my favorite Hawks film of 1932, despite the formidable competition of...
18 hotlove666 Offline Send Email Jun 15, 2003
5:02 pm
I don't have tv, but Mick Farren mentions in the first issue of LA's new alternative newspaper, City Beat, that it aired a few weeks ago on TCM. The cast apart...
19 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 15, 2003
7:13 pm
... I saw it quite recently, at the Tourneur fest at Lincoln Center last fall. I can't say it worked very well for me: a little too much of the emotional...
20 hotlove666 Offline Send Email Jun 15, 2003
8:49 pm
It's still interesting how many of Tourneur's film have technically progressive plots - "technically" in the sense that they are not effectively progressive,...
21 ptonguette@...
peter_tonguette Offline Send Email
Jun 15, 2003
9:07 pm
... That's great to hear. I find those Kehr capsules incredibly useful and valuable. (I write this as someone temperamentally incapable of writing an ...
22 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 15, 2003
9:10 pm
... Does that mean that City Beat has rights to the Chicago Reader's blurb catalog? Is there any relationship between City Beat and the Reader? I remember...
23 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 15, 2003
9:19 pm
... One of the early American auteurists, the estimable Roger Greenspun, was also a third or fourth stringer for the Times back in the sixties and seventies....
24 jess_l_amortell Offline Send Email Jun 15, 2003
9:29 pm
... He was the second stringer -- under Canby. He wrote a piece about it afterwards in Film Comment......
25 jess_l_amortell Offline Send Email Jun 15, 2003
9:41 pm
... Actually it was Eugene Archer, earlier, who was the third or fourth (probably fourth) stringer, right? Was Archer (who influenced Sarris) the first...
26 Dan Sallitt
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Jun 15, 2003
9:55 pm
... Yeah, I think that's where my number confusion came from. Sarris always credited Archer for turning him on to the politique. I think Patrick Bauchau might...
27 ptonguette@...
peter_tonguette Offline Send Email
Jun 15, 2003
10:00 pm
... I think Kehr is about it. I suppose his auteurist background didn't help him at all in landing Janet Maslin's slot at the Times after she resigned. Kehr ...
28 Patrick Ciccone
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Jun 16, 2003
12:10 am
I keep meaning to arrange an extensive interview with Sarris to figure out the origins of American auteurism, which I was sort of researching last year--but I ...
29 Fred Camper
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Jun 16, 2003
12:55 am
... Well, New York is more than twice as large as any U.S. city (or at least, was back then), and it was always the U.S.'s cultural capital. It has more film...
30 jess_l_amortell Offline Send Email Jun 16, 2003
1:00 am
... It's not exactly posthumous Preminger (and it considerably precedes THE HUMAN FACTOR), but it's Preminger that I never knew existed, while he was alive: A...
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