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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Lionel Rogosin: part two
Lionel Rogosin is generally referred to as a documentary filmmaker. He himself rejected the label, saying several times in the documentaries accompanying the three features in the Carlotta DVD set that he saw himself following in the steps of Robert … Continue reading
Lionel Rogosin: On the Bowery (1956)
The announcement that Milestone will be releasing Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery next February reminded me that I still hadn’t got around to watching the three-disk set of Rogosin’s work that I bought in Paris in the summer of 2010. … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick 2: The Business – Spartacus (1960)
I’ve been hung up for a few weeks in my plan to re-watch all of Stanley Kubrick’s films in chronological order because the prospect of sitting through Spartacus one more time was a bit daunting. There was a three year … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Directors, Historical Epic, Marlon Brando, Review, Stanley Kubrick, Western
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TCM Remembers 2011
TCM once again offers a very elegant video tribute to those movie people who died during the year — actors, writers, directors, producers. Seeing so many familiar (and a few unfamiliar) faces in this brief assembly causes a sense of … Continue reading
Flipside: extreme male anxiety
The latest pair of releases from the BFI’s Flipside series offer a fascinating snapshot of what was happening to the male sense of identity at the height of the feminist impact on filmmaking in the ’70s and early ’80s. While … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, British Film, Directors, Gender, Independent Film, Politics, Review
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Recent viewing, part 3
Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (2010) began as a couple of shorts (2003 and 2005) which were a success on the Internet. In the form of industrial training films, they depicted the hunting, taming, and training of wild Santa Clauses in … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Anthony Newley, British Television, Charles Laughton, Directors, DVD, Gene Wilder, Gore, Horror, Marlon Brando, Review, Roald Dahl
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Damnation and the Fields of Ambrosia
Nostalgia can be an odd thing. As I’ve been working on my documentary about the history of movie-going in Winnipeg, and thinking about how much time I spent in the old theatres which no longer exist, and what it felt … Continue reading
Recent viewing, part 2
You could make an interesting double bill out of Daniel Barber’s Harry Brown (2009) and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block (2011). Both are set in crime-ridden British housing estates where residents are terrorized by youth gangs, both have a gritty … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Aliens, British Film, Directors, DVD, Italian Film, Melodrama
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