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Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 30, 2019
Though there’s not a shred of doubt this picture was filmed on a Hollywood backlot, our story takes place in 1889 on the Moors of Dartmoor in Devonshire. It’s all very British and when you do a quick scan of the most British figures coming out of literature and pop culture, you would pro read more
Summer 1993 (2017)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 27, 2019
Summer 1993 is a testament to subtleties which can make a film into something imbued with deeper meanings than what we might initially realize. It begins with the title immediately asserting this is a period piece and also implicitly we have the suggestion of the autobiographical. The postcript ded read more
The Only Son (1936)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 25, 2019
Tragedy in life starts with the bondage of parents and children. The film opens with a single extended scene with the title card reading: Shinshu, Central Japan 1923. Ozu guides us in with his pillow shots framing the story’s sequences with images of his locales which neither serve the narrat read more
Arigato-san (1936)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 23, 2019
The translated English title of Mr. Thank You somehow comes off insincere as if it’s making fun but there’s nothing of this kind of sentiment in this picture from director Hiroshi Shumizu. It proves to be a cordial exploration of human nature and human kindness played out in the most or read more
The Burmese Harp (1956)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 22, 2019
Put in juxtaposition with Kon Ichikawa’s later rumination on WWII, The Burmese Harp is a romanticized even simplistic account of the Japanese perspective of the war. However, this is not to discount the mesmerizing nature of the story that is woven nor the overarching truth that seems to ling read more
Fires on the Plain (1959)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 21, 2019
The opening images of Fires on the Plain nearly catch you off guard. Not only are we thrown into a dialogue sequence that we have yet to grasp but much like Ozu would have a penchant for doing, director Kon Ichikawa photographs two Japanese soldiers head on so their conversation and reactions face read more
Shoplifters (2018)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 19, 2019
Hirokazu Kore-eda has quickly become one of my favorite Japanese directors and I consider it fortuitous that this affinity has cropped up in such a fertile period. Shoplifters is a high water mark in his already illustrious career. Many folks are probably quick to label him the modern generationR read more
Summer with Monika (1953)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 18, 2019
If I didn’t know any better I would say what the desires of the kids at the center of this early Bergman picture, sound like the American Dream. Except maybe it’s the Swedish Dream and maybe the main tenets are all but universal to many of the wide-eyed, angsty teens out there. The live read more
Review: What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 16, 2019
I’ve always been fascinated with individuals who have blurred the line between the film critic and actual contributors to the industry. Notable examples, of course, being the boys at Cahiers du Cinema, Frank S. Nugent, James Agee, Paul Schrader, even Roger Ebert, and certainly Peter Bogdanovi read more
Mirror (1975)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 14, 2019
Andrei Tarkovsky has already left such an indelible impression on me even after only seeing a couple of his films. This already makes it very easy to place him atop that ever fluctuating, never quite established, constantly quarreled over, list of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He’s sub read more
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 12, 2019
The onus is on every new superhero movie to delineate itself from the pack by sidestepping the plethora of genre cliches. It’s almost assumed they have something fresh to say about superheroes with their origin stories, self-actualizations, inner demons, and ultimate ascension to defeat the en read more
Badlands (1973)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 11, 2019
I’ve always maintained a great admiration for Terence Malick, even after only seeing two of his most renowned pictures, Days of Heaven (1978) and Tree of Life (2011). This a testament to his intuitive understanding of the image and how gloriously sublime it can be. It’s true his picture read more
Pather Panchali (1955)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 10, 2019
Pather Panchali is one of those films that instantly helps you to recognize the merit of the cinema. It’s a cultural artifact allowing us to come to grips with the fact there is a world far larger than our little pocket of existence. Satyajit Ray does that for us here in his affecting debut b read more
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 9, 2019
I’ve been of the certain age where it seems like every friend you have is getting married in the next year. It’s an exhilarating time albeit expensive and a bit taxing (if you’re even able to go to all of them). But most of us wouldn’t trade the joy of being a part of these e read more
Review: The Quiet Man (1952)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 7, 2019
When you think of the combination of John Ford and John Wayne, it’s only normal to conjure up the quintessential western pairing. It’s true there are so many films that we could pay a nod to like Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1961), etc. Thus read more
Paris, Texas (1984)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 4, 2019
It occurs to me only someone with an outsider’s perspective would choose to make this movie, which is void of any typical Hollywood flair. No American would have thought in a million years to cast Harry Dean Stanton (a lifelong character actor) and Dean Stockwell (an all but forgotten child st read more
The Song of The Thin Man (1947)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 3, 2019
The Song of The Thin Man is really and truly the swan song of the series and while I did enjoy most of the additions, there is a sense that it was time to end the franchise. The year is 1947. The war is over. Things have changed. It really has little to do with William Powell and Myrna Loy being ol read more
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 2, 2019
Sometimes it’s necessary to go back to the basics. We’ve been introduced to the social elite of New York and San Francisco, invited along to giant family estates, and frequented the race track and wrestling rings. It only makes sense that at some point we would finally be introduced to read more
Shadow of The Thin Man (1941)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jan 1, 2019
Little Nick Charles Jr. is growing up and his loving daddy, in lieu of fairy tales, reads to his son about the horse races. Some things never change. Despite an unfortunate stereotyped-laden portrayal provided by Louise Beavers, the picture quickly settles into another enjoyable jaunt. In fact, it& read more
Another Thin Man (1939)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Dec 31, 2018
Parenthood hasn’t slackened the good-natured give and take between Mr. and Mrs. Charles or Mr. Charles drinking habit either. The only difference now is that Nick affectionately calls his other half “mommy” and they have a little more work getting their nurse to watch over the bab read more