Novelist, screenwriter, who died yesterday. Associated with some quite interesting films, including Made in the U.S.A.,Point Blank, The Stepfather, and The...
"The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" is an enjoyable film, a little heavy on its premise, but worth praising for several reasons. One of them is the ending, which...
Mr. Wood has called Mizoguchi's late phase (1950 to his death from Leukemia in 1956) his "Buddhist contemplation" period. A number of critics, indeed, have...
... "...Mr. Modiano also notes that there is, beyond technique, a consistent philosophical and spiritual world view being asserted in these late films, and...
... <alfreddouglas19@...> wrote: "On the prominence of Buddhism in Sansho Dayu: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49445" Interesting, but Kannon is...
I have just watched Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and *loved* it; it make me feel giddy inside like no other film since Arnaud Desplechin's "A...
... Not too many. The one that came to mind first is Ashby's THE LAST DETAIL, which fades between reverse shots during one of the bus conversations. And then,...
michal I was very much taken by surprise by the film also which seems like a very young film in many ways, including the ones you mentioned (as far as the...
... Richard understood my question and has explained it better than I could. Western film critics understanding of Buddhism is often comparable to current US...
Yes, the diversity of views, theories, etc., across the range of Buddhist schools is certainly quite astonishingly varied in a way not to be found in...
A friend of a friend of mine is desperately seeking a title of a movie he once saw, and wrote to me, as well. I thought about it really hard, and even though...
... <michal.oleszczyk@...> wrote: "...The plot is mostly science fiction in nature. It involves a person who can cure other people's illnesses, cancer,...
This is an announcement to let you all know that the previously announced Early Howard Hawks Blog-a-thon is happening now. It will run from today, January 12,...
... http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/rip-patrick-mcg.html A great talent who will be missed. But at least there is THE PRISONER on dvd to watch and...
It so happened that I re-watched Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows" (1955) tonight, and I liked it in a number of ways, despite having some reservations, too. ...
... It could be that the classic dramatic cinema wasn't well equipped to treat uncomfortable class issues in this fashion. Hitchcock wanted to do it in THE...
Working class Americans in 1955 were not "uncouth" or ill-mannered. They had good table manners, were polite, clean and wore suits and ties to church on...
... "...I don't think Sirk is trying to induce sexual shock. Instead, he is looking at materialistic social class climbing versus intellectual bohemianism." I...
... odor ... That's right. I think HOBSON'S CHOICE is another film in which the class difference is played for comedy, and this tone permits Lean to suggest...
Judging from "The Honeymooners", it wasn't all that pretty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxPNVU15k0 What I missed in Hudson's character was not crassness,...
... True. Of course, there's always BOUDU! ... The hippie movement was like that too: the appropriate demeanor was calm spiritual superiority. I don't think...
... Interestingly enough, it was Depardieu who played Boudu in the misbegotten 2005 remake. I guess he will never shake of that Loulou image. --Michal...
... ! ... All agreed Mike, but I think the real basis for shock is the age difference. Wyman is clearly older, and a widow. The real dynamic of the Country...
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