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Tyrone Power Lurches Down “Nightmare Alley”
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An odd but now well-regarded film noir, with A-list stars and production staff, and a larger-than-normal budget, “Nightmare Alley” is based on William Lindsay Gresham’s squalid 1946 novel. In an attempt to move away from his usual roles as a romantic lead and adventurer, Tyrone Power bou read more
AFI Fest 2014: Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body
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Day Four: Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body (2014) I had a ticket to “Song of the Sea,” the new animated film by Tomm Moore (“The Secret of Kells,” 2009) but couldn’t make it. I’m looking forward to seeing it, albeit on a much smaller screen, when it come read more
New series – A Random Weekly Roundup
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I’m going to try a regular Sunday series: a weekly roundup of interesting movie tidbits–essays, posts, news, etcetera. I’ll keep it short this week, with three items. First up, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, second time around. Here’s the trailer for Ben Stiller’s new read more
The “Austere Wickedness”* of Alain Delon in “Purple Noon”
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My husband refers to Alain Delon as “farcically good-looking,” and, really, Delon is so good-looking, it’s practically an insult. He was a mere 25 when he made “Plein Soleil” (known in English as “Purple Noon” for no good reason I can find) with director René Clément. read more
AFI Fest 2014: Villa Touma (Suha Arraf)
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Day Five: Suha Arraf’s Villa Touma (2014) In the spirit of recent posts at Krell Laboratories (“Rethinking the American Canon”) and Girls Do Film (“A Realisation…and a New Year Resolution”) on the paucity of work by women directors, and in the less lofty spirit read more
Army of Shadows (L’armée des ombres, 1969), Part 1: Snoopathon
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Once again, I seem to have chosen the one of the least typical examples of the genre for a genre-based blogathon. “L’armée des ombres” (“Army of Shadows”), Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film about a small group of French Resistance fighters during World War II, is undeniably a spy film. And read more
Sunday Random Roundup for August 18, 2013
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Welcome back, dear readers, for this week’s edition of the Sunday Random Roundup. Big Films in Other Places Remember last week’s rant about the state of film distribution in the U.S.? Well, here’s some potentially good news: Local films seem to be outdoing Hollywood “blockbus read more
SBIFF 2015: “Second Chance” (2014) & “Confession” (2014)
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Taiwanese film number two of the festival was the frothy “Second Chance,” directed by Wen-yen Kung. Okay, maybe not frothy exactly, but definitely bubbly. “Second Chance” is (I assume) one of the only action movies about pool. Yes, that kind of pool, where you stand around read more