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[...] , the town is empty since everyone present is attending a murder trial, the accused being Rosa Moline who bursts into the screen from below the frame, screaming that she didn’t kill the victim and [...]

[...] “LALANNE: Have you seen his final films? GODARD: Yes, on DVD. Triple Agent is a very strange film. I'm really into espionage, but I wouldn't have imagined that such a [...]

[...] French today. Dialogue, the spoken word are central concerns in The Lady and the Duke and Triple Agent. The former film is based on the real-life memoirs of Grace Elliot(Lucy Russell), a Scottish [...]

[...] some green.’ ” The Cobweb resembles Meet Me in St. Louis to a greater degree than any other Vincente Minnelli film. It shares with that film the DP George Folsey and like that film it attempts to [...]

[...] like to see restored and re-issued(it's presently available on TCM channel's broadcasts) is Vincente Minnelli's The Cobweb, on which I wrote about last year. [...]

[...] Otto Preminger, Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, the RKO horror films of Val Lewton, Vincente Minnelli's musicals or Sirk's 50s colour melodramas. Then of course there are international [...]

[...] of the DVD edition available at the BCL, Mumbai. I had heard of Michael Powell from Martin Scorsese's championing of his films or second hand as an obscure British film-maker. But I [...]

[...] the same period and revolved around the early days of journalism. Then of course there's Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York which directly "quotes" the most famous scene of this film. The [...]

[...] . Change is either too late or not enough to fill the void. Gangs of New York (2002) – Martin Scorsese If the nineties represented Martin Scorsese’s most consistent period, the Double Zero [...]

[...] idea was to tell Kita Ikki's story through the viewpoint of this figure entirely. In the final film, the young soldier serves as a character who surrogates for Kita's contradictory idea of [...]

[...] (he would die a few months later). Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin(who play singing sisters in his final film, the delightful A Prairie Home Companion) in one of the great Oscar moments, roast Altman by [...]

[...] ). Die Marquise von O… and Perceval le Gallois were highly stylized literary adaptations. His final film, Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon, completes this cycle. The Lady and the Duke and Triple [...]

[...] I want" is her only defense, her only excuse for "always being different". A key scene is when Rosa tries to coddle money out of her husband so that she can visit Chicago. He claims [...]

[...] chief of his Sioux clan except for the fact that - "I can't stomach politics!" The key scene is when Walking Coyote and O'Meara rest under the night skies. It's a single take, a two-shot [...]

[...] reality compromises them, the same milieu reverses itself and rebounds on the characters. The key scene that deals with this (the confrontation between Widmark and Gish in her living room) is so [...]

[...] real love for art is what separates the genuine writers from films such as Manny Farber, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Raymond Durgnat, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard from regular reviewers and able [...]

[...] trees and decor that we see everywhere only serve to underline the disequilibrium.” - Jonathan Rosenbaum, in consideration of Eyes Wide Shut as an underrated Christmas film. Normal 0 false false [...]

[...] 's attacks) but where else can one read James Agee on Film, Who The Devil Made It and Why, Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movies as Politics, James Naremore's The Magic World of Orson Welles. But it marks the [...]

[...] good reasons for its harsh reception. Put it simply, it’s among the toughest and harshest American films since Stroheim’s Greed, unflinching in its portrayal of Rosa Moline, one of the frightening [...]

[...] and violent as the one on display in this film. It's a work of urban folklore that very few American films have touched on or revisited. After this there was of course Samuel Fuller's Park Row which [...]

[...] was also non-parochial to extend the criteria of British films to include Hitchcock's American films, all of Chaplin's Short Films, films made in England by expats like Polanski or [...]

[...] sets and interiors (acknowledged by Ford in a letter to Bosley Crowther as an atavism to his silent films); non-realistic casting of aging actors as types and icons more than flesh-and-blood [...]

[...] society was made available and the response to the film has been good. There are his silent films, like Regeneration - an early post-Musketeers of Pig Alley-pre-Scarface gangster film [...]

[...] , the meanness of the character as played by an actress who embodied chastity and virtue in her silent films with D. W. Griffith carries an almost Brechtian effect. This is especially apparent in what [...]

[...] of his role in the house and his own sense of identity. In one scene that reminds one of Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life, he decides to educate his son Daiki(who is in fact the son from his wife's [...]

[...] appeal like the westerns of Anthony Mann, the crime films of Otto Preminger, Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, the RKO horror films of Val Lewton, Vincente Minnelli's musicals or Sirk's 50s colour [...]

[...] into a figure of discomfiture. In this one moment, Minnelli summons up the whole of Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life. (not that it’s a better film as a result) The Cobweb is in effect [...]