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‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Nov 29, 2014
In
the period of Germany’s Weimar Republic, a unique and volatile pre- and
post-war era within a window of less than 20 years, the German people
were experiencing a torrent of new ideological, social, and political
shifts. What was once traditional and normal was giving way to the
modern read more
‘It Happened One Night’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Nov 29, 2014
When
Frank Capra came upon the 1933 Samuel Hopkins Adams story “Night Bus,”
he thought it would make a great film. He bought the property and took
it to screenwriter Robert Riskin, with whom he had worked a few years
prior on Platinum Blonde (1931). The script was set to be
Capra read more
‘My Darling Clementine’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Nov 16, 2014
In John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962), it is remarked that, “When the legend becomes fact, print the
legend.” This seems especially apt when it comes to the treatment of the
Arizona city Tombstone and the historic western yarn of the gunfight at
the O.K. Corral read more
‘La Dolce Vita’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Nov 16, 2014
Right from the start of Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita,
we know we’re in for something different, something exciting, something
audacious. Fellini’s choice of initial imagery announces immediately
that this is a film about the contradictions of modern life. First, we read more
'Adieu au langage' and 'Film Socialisme': Godard’s Latest, Among His Greatest
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Nov 16, 2014
Jean-Luc Godard, and more specifically his 1965 film Pierrot le Fou,
literally changed my life, and set me on a path toward intense and
everlasting cinephilia. Since the first time I saw that film, it has
remained my favorite movie of all time and Godard my favorite director.
So when I finally h read more
‘Macbeth’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Oct 15, 2014
Following the success of Rosemary’s Baby in 1968, and prior to what is arguably still his greatest film, Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski made three curious filmmaking choices. One was the international coproduction and rarely discussed What? (1972), one was the racing documentary Weekend of a read more
‘Once Upon a Time in America’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Oct 15, 2014
Widely
and justly heralded for his trendsetting Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio
Leone’s final and arguably most ambitious work was in another staple
American genre. Like these Westerns though, this film was as much of its
respective variety as it was about it. Once Upon a Time in America, with read more
‘Out of the Past’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Sep 20, 2014
Director
Jacques Tourneur knew how to make the most out of a little,
particularly when he was working in collaboration with producer Val
Lewton (see Cat People, 1942, I Walked with a Zombie, 1943, and The Leopard Man,
1943). So when RKO gave this master of the low-budget picture a
comparatively read more
‘Hangmen Also Die’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Sep 20, 2014
Accounts
vary regarding Fritz Lang’s departure from his native Germany in 1933.
His own tale of a hasty and secretive escape in the dark of night has
been met with scrutiny, and documentation from the period seems to
confirm a considerable amount of embellishment on Lang’s part. In a read more
'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Aug 3, 2014
Even if we weren’t told at the start that Picnic at Hanging Rock
was about a group of girls who disappeared Saturday, Feb. 14, 1900 and
were never seen again, it would become apparent almost immediately that
this 1975 film was not going to end happily, or progress normally.
Director Peter read more
‘The Young Girls of Rochefort’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Aug 3, 2014
Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort is the Oscar-nominated follow-up to his immensely popular and successful The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(1964), which with all of its dialogue sung was something of a
reinvention of the movie musical, an almost experiential musical. Young Girls, on the read more
‘Love Streams’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Aug 3, 2014
Love Streams,
John Cassavetes’ final film as an actor and penultimate film as
director, is also one of his most unusual features. While his
distinctive work can oftentimes be divisive, it’s easy to see how this
film more than most others could be rather off-putting to those not
appr read more
‘Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Aug 3, 2014
No matter if his protagonists are deranged or distraught, happy or sad, or if his stories are light or dark, comedic or tragic, the films of Pedro Almodóvar are usually at the very least enjoyable. Even at their most disturbing, there is something inescapably jubilant about his lavish use of co read more
‘L’eclisse’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jul 3, 2014
L’eclisse is the third film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s so-called “Trilogy of Alienation,” the preceding works having been L’avventura and La notte. (With justification, some would argue that Red Desert,
his next film, truly rounds out what would then be considered a read more
‘I vinti’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jul 3, 2014
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Giorgio Bassani, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Diego Fabbri, Roger Nimier, Turi Vasile Italy/France, 1953
In 1953, Michelangelo Antonioni directed the episodic I vinti (The Vanquished),
quite possibly the least “Antonioni-es read more
'Double Indemnity'
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jun 22, 2014
This year marks the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest film noir
ever made, perhaps the quintessential title of that perpetually popular
and occasionally fluid cinematic category. To celebrate the occasion, a
new restoration of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity premiered
at the recent T read more
‘Red River’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jun 22, 2014
Howard Hawks’ Red River
is supposedly the film that convinced John Ford of John Wayne’s talent
(apparently opposed to his abilities to simply perform or suggest a
powerful screen presence). Ford had, of course, worked with Wayne
previously, and Wayne had appeared in dozens of other f read more
‘The Big Red One’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jun 7, 2014
When
a director like Samuel Fuller finally gets the chance to make his
passion project, rest assured, there’s going to be more than a little of
the man himself in the movie. With Fuller, this would have undoubtedly
been the case no matter what type of film it was, but when the film is
an read more
‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jun 7, 2014
Before
he filmed his eccentric version of what makes a bad lieutenant, and
before he fictionalized his documentary about Dieter needing to fly,
Werner Herzog in 1979 wrote and directed a full-fledged remake of a
silent film classic. His Nosferatu the Vampyre, an exceptionally faithful take on F. read more
‘Angel’
Studies in Cinema Posted by Jeremy Carr on Jun 7, 2014
Angel
is a 1937 feature directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Marlene
Dietrich. It’s not the greatest film of either one of their careers,
however, it is a film deserving of attention, at the very least because
it’s a film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Marlene Dietrich. read more