The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974): The Ultimate NYC Film
“What is this New York-ness?”
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“What is this New York-ness?”
“To be a star, or thought of as a star, was not enough.”
“He is an itinerant hero, a lone samurai whose mask is his blindness, a mask that hides his many strengths. I am always looking for new cinematic vistas. New directors,[…]
Actors & Personalities · Genres
All movies have the potential to become a non-movie, particularly when the movie showcases a cause, a disease, a celebrity, an actor’s virtuosity, a play or musical. The movie becomes[…]
“A Hollywood Satan is a persistent devil” There is a simple, plain logic to sequels. Capitalize on the prodigious success of the original movie. Sometimes the box office success of[…]
“In a single bold stroke, Ruiz films the novel according to the play of images, feelings, scents, and tastes that Marcel experiences.” 1. An attempt to film Proust’s Remembrance of[…]
“Why not sock the audiences early with the ‘fuck her in the ass’ line?” I do not look forward to any book I am reading being turned into a novel.1[…]
The show must go on Never has a movie better fitted a sociological theory than The Truman Show (1999) to the work of Erving Goffman. Best known for Presentation of[…]
More fun in the new (old) world
In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness and transcends them
Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”
Kane as Welles, also America
Disturbing movies shouldn’t equivocate
Characters · Essays · Genres · Thrillers & Action
In which Lazenby, like Lazarus, is resurrected, along with the movie
Characters · Drama · Essays
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
The Shining and Fargo share a view of a society “stupefied by its hypothetical aspirations”
In which “Fellini takes us beyond our frailties and chaos”
On civilization and its discontents I recently saw a list of Luddite movies that listed Cameron’s The Terminator (1984), Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), and Lang’s Metropolis (1927), among others. Luddites[…]
Actors & Personalities · Essays · Reviews
I had an opportunity to see a double feature a couple of years ago on a British Airways flight to Madrid. The size of the screen certainly reduced any desire[…]