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Media Matters: David Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 23, 2015
It’s
not uncommon for a science fiction film to prophesy the future, in
terms of technology, the social state of humanity, or even certain
global scenarios. It is, however, relatively rare for a film to have as
its basic premise particular subject matter that, while relevant in its
year o read more
‘Imitation of Life’ (1934/1959)
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Apr 23, 2015
Imitation of Life Written by William Hurlbut Directed by John M. Stahl USA, 1934
Written by Eleanore Griffin and Allan Scott Directed by Douglas Sirk USA, 1959
The
debate about the necessity and worth of continual remakes rages on
every year. Will the new version be as good as the original? Or read more
‘The Soft Skin’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 25, 2015
Riding high on the critical reputation of the French New Wave (if not its consistent box office success), and with The 400 Blows (1959), Shoot the Piano Player (1960), and Jules and Jim (1962) behind him, François Truffaut’s fourth feature is something rather different. There is still the sa read more
‘The Lady from Shanghai’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 25, 2015
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) didn’t come easily for Orson Welles. No film ever really did after his breakthrough, the great Citizen Kane
(1941), the movie that put him on the map and in the crosshairs of the
Hollywood establishment. They wanted little to do with this iconoclastic
hotshot f read more
Warner Brothers Musicals Collection
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 25, 2015
The
Musicals Collection Blu-ray set from Warner Home Video contains four
Hollywood classics of the genre, at least two of them among the greatest
of all time: Kiss Me Kate, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, and Singin’ in the Rain. And all except for Singin’ in the Rain
are making their read more
‘A Day in the Country’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 15, 2015
Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country
comes at a curious point in the director’s career. In 1936, he had
several exceptional silent films to his credit, as well as such classics
of early French sound cinema as La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), and The Crime of Monsieur read more
Silent Discoveries – ‘After Six Days’ & ‘Yesterday and Today’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 15, 2015
From VCI Entertainment comes the odd and only moderately interesting Silent Discoveries double feature, containing After Six Days, a 62-minute 1920 Biblical epic, and Yesterday and Today,
a nearly hour-long 1953 documentary. As noted by VCI, the former was
“Touted at the time as a ‘$3, read more
‘Fellini Satyricon’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 15, 2015
It’s somewhat surprising that in 1971, Federico Fellini was nominated for a best director Academy Award for Fellini Satyricon.
To say the least, it’s a very un-Oscar type of film, especially by
today’s standards. But it is a film, an exceptional one, that truly from
start to fin read more
'Il Sorpasso'
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 15, 2015
Bruno
Cortona (Vittorio Gassman) zips along deserted Roman streets in his
Lancia Aurelia B24. In search of a telephone, he is a high-speed
automotive speck dwarfed by towering housing complexes and businesses.
Bruno maintains this frenetic pace whether he’s on foot, in his car, or
speakin read more
‘Kiss Me, Stupid’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Mar 15, 2015
How good was Billy Wilder? So good that this film, Kiss Me, Stupid—largely
entertaining, frequently witty, beautifully shot, and with at least two
noteworthy performances—probably wouldn’t figure in most lists of his
top 10 movies. Yet it is a good Billy Wilder film, if not a gr read more
‘The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 14, 2015
“Fassbinder
is Petra von Kant.” So says frequent star and muse Hanna Schygulla as
she discusses Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s working methods and his
identification with his characters, both male and female. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
is a notable case in point. Based on F read more
‘My Winnipeg’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 14, 2015
Since its release in 2007, a good deal of the conversation surrounding Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg
has been how exactly to define the film. Is it, as Maddin himself has
dubbed the picture, a “docu-fantasia,” or is that not even accurate?
During an interview between Maddin and criti read more
‘A Hole in the Head’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 14, 2015
As
the opening credits soar across the sky, shown as flapping aerial
announcements pulled along by the Goodyear blimp, the talent behind A Hole in the Head
is clear. The major players in this Frank Capra film include Frank
Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma
Ritte read more
‘Every Man for Himself’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Feb 14, 2015
Jean-Luc Godard’s 1980 feature, Sauve qui peut (la vie), or Every Man for Himself,
was something of a return to form for the director (if one can really
say Godard ever had a typical form to return to). It was, as he
declared, and as is often quoted, his “second first film.” As read more
‘The Conformist’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 18, 2015
When
first introduced to the improved quality of Blu-ray technology, there
were about a dozen films I couldn’t wait to see in the format. These
were movies of extraordinary beauty that I knew would surely benefit
from the enhanced visual resolution. Now, with the arrival of Bernardo
Berto read more
‘L’Avventura’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 18, 2015
Michelangelo Antonioni’s enigmatic and brilliant L’Avventura
is one of the benchmarks for international art cinema, a somewhat
disputable designation that was, nevertheless, very much in vogue at the
time of its release. Take the 1960 Cannes Film Festival for example,
where L’A read more
‘Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 18, 2015
The
popularity of the Western, at one point America’s reigning genre
champion, was starting to wane considerably by the mid-1960s and well
into the 1970s. In part to keep the form alive, and in part to examine
just want made this type of film what it once was and had now become,
many film read more
‘Skidoo’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 18, 2015
Of
the films I’ve written about in this column, I would whole-heartedly
recommend each without reservation, to not only watch, but to spend good
money on. With 1968′s Skidoo, out now on a new Olive Films
Blu-ray, I’m breaking that tradition. I wouldn’t suggest anyone purc read more
‘Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jan 18, 2015
Adapted
from a Japanese manga released in the late 1980s, which was then turned
into an anime series, Ngai Choi Lam’s 1991 film, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, is gory, goofy greatness. Called the “best comic book adaptation ever created” by Hobo with a Shotgun
director Jason Eise read more
‘Man of the West’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Nov 29, 2014
Man of the West
was director Anthony Mann’s final Western of the 1950s. As such, it
stands as something of a cumulative expression of his generic
preoccupations and stylistic preferences, preoccupations and preferences
that were consistently integrated in a decade’s worth of some of read more