... It's good, but I don't think it had a very profound effect on me except that it made me want to re-watch THE BIG RED ONE. Having only seen this and the...
... pastiche soundtracks -- what then? Doesn't Borzage's A FAREWELL TO ARMS end with the Liebestod? Even if it's probably too early to be considered...
Robert Mitchum Vincent Price Jane Russell Jim Backus Raymond Burr A Howard Hughes Production Directed by John Farrow and Richard Fleisher Release date 1951...
This is the first time I've seen Fleischer's name linked to this film. I'm curious where you found that information. Not that I doubt you; on the contrary,...
Thanks to Vincent LoBrutto, Bill Krohn and Fred Camper for really informative posts on diary films, essay films, and Jonas Mekas! Would love to see the films...
An enjoyable Making Of film is "A China Odyssey" (Les Mayfield, 1987). This is allegedly a Making Of film about Steven Spielberg's film, Empire of the Sun. But...
Very interesting posts. Farrow is a director Sarris missed. I didn't know Fleisher was on Some Kind of Woman, either, but before dismissing JF, take a look at ...
As for people are saying "it's in" and "it's out", I guess I'm not completely familiar with the whole concept of essay film. At least, I find myself thinking...
... I'm a Farrow fan as well. I first heard about him from David Thomson, who thinks Farrow did strong work at least up to 1956's BACK FROM ETERNITY; I don't...
Mazursky's "Next Stop Greenwich Village" is ripe for re-evaluation. I tought it glib when it was first released, but now I think it's among his best. Lenny ...
Art historians sometimes use simple math, such as circles and rectangles, to explore painters' use of composition. I have been exploring the same idea, trying...
"Next Stop," "Blume In Love," and particularly "Enemies, A Love Story" are wonderful films, I think, though I'd agree that he's not the most consistent ...
... I actually thought this was kind of minor. It contains some lovely moments of Welles strolling around the city, talking up its history, food, and hotels, ...
I actually caught up with Mazursky in his later phase, and besides Enemies, a masterpiece, I recommend Faithful, trashed by Cher's attempts to re-edit it, but...
I've seen only three Mazursky films Next Stop Greenwich Village, Moscow on the Hudson and Scenes from the Mall, and disliked all very strongly. I nearly rented...
The name John Farrow conjures up elaborate but pointless tracking shots, especially in the very dull California where they seem to go on for several moments....
Hi Damien. It's not a terribly well-known fact. But then, as I'm sure you're well aware, so much of the pandemic is lost to the ofuscation of official...
I'm embarrassed to admit that Enemies is the only Mazursky I've seen. (We did a little roundtable of our friends in the Iras -- Damien is one that you know --...
Curiously, the book was not well received by Singer's admirers, who saw it as a cold, unpleasant aberration provoked by the author's own survivor's guilt....
Finally found some time to watch the third-rate bootleg copy of Sam Fuller's TV movie, and while it's got the expected weaknesses (mostly having to do with the...
Jaime N. Christley: "....The chief source of strength (as opposed to the chief strength) of DEAD PIGEON is the music...." Hmmm, it's been more than two decades...
I love "Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street." Amazingly, it turned up on TV about three years ago in a pretty nice looking print; that's where I saw it. The ...
... Yes, that was v. unexpected, even though I knew about it in advance. I couldn't help but think, "Hey, they just cut in some shots of babies and staged the...
... The strange ending of BOB & CAROL was quite Fellini-esque, and his second film, ALEX IN WONDERLAND, was dubbed 1 1/2 by some critic. Mazursky often seemed...
... Me too! ... This makes me think of Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us, which presumably relates to a comparable set of poetic traditions. Incidentally...
Hi Dan! Paul is in love with "81/2," but the true model for "Next Stop" is "I Vittelloni" -- which is also the model for Scorsese's "Mean Streets." I've always...
David Ehrenstein: Paul is in love with "81/2," but the true model for "Next Stop" is "I Vittelloni" -- which is also the model for Scorsese's "Mean Streets." ...
I would like to go back to the discussion on genre and realism. Does anybody know any film that is great thanks to relationship with any genre? I don't and if...
