... I'm not watching them critically. This is nostalgia plain and simple. Unlike FC my first impressions of things filmlike were by hearing. In 1955, I was...
... I didn't quite understand your request. Do you want writings about Welty and film? I can't oblige you there, but I think that I have most if not all of...
... I can't tell whether THE FORSAKEN LAND is up your alley or not, but I think Jayasundara may be a major new filmmaker. Here's something I wrote for an...
Ten Days Wonder (Claude Chabrol, 1971) is a close adaptation of the 1948 mystery novel by Ellery Queen. According to an introduction to the novel Chabrol later...
... Actually it's a very great movie. The more commonly used English title is "Ten Days Wonder." It's been too long since I've seen it to offer a specific...
Thanks to Mike for some fine descriptions and analyses, which brought some of the film back for me. The issue in this film, and in others of Chabrol at his...
... wrote: "...[Gregory] Peck served as a cordon sanitaire between the 'mainstream' (i.e. non-Jewish, non-black) viewer and dramatizations of religious and...
... me, a ... This is just a personality difference between you and me. I use my analytic faculties more or less non-stop in life. This is annoying and ...
... Peck's ... actual ... who ... white ... to ... you ... David -- I read this. One more DE diatribe against a film to which you have never given one word of...
... wrote: "...'To Kill a Mockingbird' is most deeply about a child's point of view of the world, and how it engages contrasting realities, including the...
Since David posted his piece, I am going to forward mine to group as well. It was published on Tuesday in an excellent new zine The November 3rd Club. ...
... This is why Abraham Polonsky requested his name be removed from the credits of GUILTY BY SUSPICION. Looking back on the past and Peck's roles, one does see...
... I think ... I understood this very well, Richard, and did make note of how "Mockingbird" was perceived--and may even still be perceived by many (the fact...
... I ... Johnathon Rosenbaum has a review of "Temptress Moon" where he writes about the changes made by Harvey & Co. Chen Kaige said in an interview that a...
... "Farewell's" formal attention to space and sound almost equals Lang -- and since you, Bill, have a particular habit of name dropping to back up your...
The issues raised by David E and Brian are worthwhile, but lead to complications. This post is going to try to point out some positive and negative aspects of...
... My reason for seeing BM as homophobic is that it posits queer desire as unnatural. My stance has nothing to do with characters -- admirable or otherwise....
... Quite a good example. Wanting honest films about glbt people doesn't mean films that present their lives as peaches and cream. The characters in "Dying...
I had the same negative reaction to "Farewell My Concubine" that Bill Krohn did. And for the same reason. The child abuse depictions in the first half hour...
Mike, That was a first-rate post. I would only like to add that the film employs many long-distance, fast-moving zoom ins, which to me impart a sense of the...
... otherwise. You can have a gay character do anything you like in my opinion, as long as you do not link queer desire with unnaturalness and/or evil. But...
... A visual and editorial pattern that is vigorously thought out the film- ... Strictly in the interest of keeping the critical vocabulary straight, that may...
... Someone correct me if I'm going of the deep end ... and ... the ... Holy hell!!! Is that really the definition of white elephant art?! It's always been...
... Well James Caan DID turn out to be a "Star of Tomorrow." There's a rather interesting essay on "Red Line " the third and final isue of "Moviegoer"...
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