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Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Limits of the Word

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I re-read Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man last week for the first time in ages. I have one of those old omnibus editions that has Hamme...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Church and State

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So, as a stark example of how movies change as people age, I offer up Becket (1964, directed by Peter Glenville). When I first saw the fi...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Farewell, John Hughes

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So John Hughes died last week after removing himself from the movie world for over a decade. I can't say that I blame him. I'm of an...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Shooting Star and Dry Summers

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The longer I stare into the abyss of cinema, the more convinced I am that it is bottomless. It's intimidating, sometimes. No matter how ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Some Enchanted Evening

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There's something appealing about a shamelessly over-the-top movie. If Orphan (2009, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra) has failings--and ...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Alone Against Tomorrow

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It's been a long, long time since I saw a science fiction movie that engaged the intellect rather than the viscera, so imagine my surpri...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Spidey Agonistes

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This was another light week for me. Apart from continuing on with Dexter and The X-Files , this is what I saw: By the time I made it to the ...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

Sucking at the Glass Teat

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This was a light week for me. Apart from re-watching Up (this time in 3-D, which added nothing to the movie but a needless distraction), I...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Films of Robert Aldrich: Vera Cruz

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Vera Cruz was the second film Robert Aldrich made for the producing team of Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht. It's also the second of fo...
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Kurosawa's The Quiet Duel

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The Quiet Duel , 1949. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura, Noriko Sengoko. ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Some Favorite Japanese Films

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Everyone has their favorites and these are some of mine. I don't do rankings, and this is subject to change at a whim. Freely associate...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Opening Gambits: Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer and Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards

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Both Kanto Wanderer and Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards were made in 1963, during director Seijun Suzuki's most prolific per...
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