Rick, I couldn't agree with you more: I was absolutely stunned by the movie, and I consider it THE best effort to convey the deep evil of Communism I've ever...
... Isn't that kind of an extreme reaction? I missed "Goya's Ghosts" (so far) but how many people ever liked his forlorn first American film "Taking Off"? Not...
... Yes, it is, and, indeed, GOYA'S GHOSTS isn't all that bad. It has problems, to be sure -- Forman seems to be aiming for the simplicity of an absurdist, ...
... but how many ... More than you would imagine. I've always loved it, and it has one of my favorite Buck Henry performances. ... Oh it's pretty good. It just...
Just some additional morning-after musings. Ludivine Sagnier's kinky ingenue in this movie is another one of Chabrol's bonnes femmes. François Berléand's...
... I have a very low tolerance for "Amadeus." This is partially because of my writing theater reviews, and having been exposed to way, *way* too many...
Chabrol says that the film (which he wrote with Cecile Maistre) is inspired by Fleischer's "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing," itself based on the murder of...
... So she's been played by Joan Collins and Elizabeth McGovern prior to Ludivine Sagnier. I ... I've adored her ever since Demy's "Trois Places pour le 26th" ...
... She's hot, as is Ludivine Sagnier, however veteran actress Caroline Sihol is effectively creepy as a coldly warped mother. Hitchcock would have approved....
I witnessed the Washington DC premiere of Forman's "Goya's Ghosts" amidst a packed house of 500 at the National Gallery of Art. The director was supposed to ...
I just saw "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," and in fifty years of making movies Sidney Lumet shows no signs of diminished vitality. Indeed, this starts...
Lumet's last film before this one, "Find Me Guilty" was phenomenal. It died the death. Heard grat things about this new one from many critical quarter. He OWNS...
... Even better is STRIP SEARCH, the HBO film Lumet made just before FIND ME GUILTY. It's a truly astonishing piece of Brechtian agit-prop that ruthlessly...
Should someone be interested in the issue, here's my essay on adapting Joseph Conrad's works to the big (and small, considering Roeg's effort) screen: ...
Very interesting. However you appear to accept "Apocalypse now" as a straightforward adaptation of Conrad rather than a variation on a theme - added to many...
This is a very interesting essay! So much of Conrad's greatness depends on the beauty of his prose style, that it is a wonder that filmmakers think they can...
For those who get it, Encore Western Channel is showing two of the best episodes of The Rifleman directed by Joseph H. Lewis tonight: Baranca The Martinet. ...
My Hawks marathon continues with "I Was a Male War Bride", "Rio Bravo", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "Land of the Pharaohs" and "Rio Lobo"... Also finished...
"Red Line 7000" has zooms. They are used in the race track scenes -- zooms in on the smoke from a car wreck. I haven't seen this film in decades, but did see...
... Well I recall he wanted to make "Don Quixote." But the Hollywood that nurtured Hawks no longer existed by 1971 when "Rio Lobo" was made. Ironically one of...
Fred, Thanks for responding. I find it interesting that he used zooms in "Red Line 7000" then skipped them in "El Dorado" (I don't remember any zooms in it)...
... The other was an around the world oil story, ... right) ... Todd McCarthy and Robin Wood both mention this, the latter in his review of the former's book....
There are some zooms in "El Dorado" ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile...
There's larger issue for me here. The case can be made that the zoom is a hideous, lazy, space-destroying device. When the camera moves through space in...
I haven't seen it years so I really can't say. But I do recall them as being rather restrained. ... http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC ...
I'd like to hear some examples of great zooms from pre-60's Classical Hollywood. I actually really love the zooms in "Rio Lobo" (1970)... There is one very...
... Actually Rio Lobo was the one that did well, but bellow Wayne's usual performance, El Dorado did pretty well. The problem with Hawks was less the BO...
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