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Author Archives: Kenneth George Godwin
Recent Disks From England
Basil Dearden’s The Bells Go Down, which I wrote about last week, is just one of a number of disks I recently received from England. Maybe it’s a bit of nostalgia, but the past few years I’ve been digging back … Continue reading
Will this ever end?
As my friend Curtis and I both despised what J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and their team did to Star Trek with their “re-boot” (more like a boot to the original’s crotch) in 2009, it would be fair to ask why … Continue reading
Basil Dearden, Humphrey Jennings, and the fires of London
Growing up in England during the late 1950s and early ’60s, my experience of British film was a mix of now-forgotten B-movies, coarse comedies (I loved the Carry On films, which seem all but unwatchable now), and occasional big productions … Continue reading
Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013
People of a certain age will have indelible memories from childhood which, while they might not have known it at the time, they owe to Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday, May 7, at the age of 92. I was too … Continue reading
DVD Review: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse)
Criterion’s Eclipse line has three general streams: to explore fringe genres, to introduce work by lesser known filmmakers, to present lesser known works by more familiar directors. The latest release, Masaki Kobayashi Against the System, falls into the third category, … Continue reading
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Tagged Criterion, Directors, DVD, Eclipse, Film History, Japanese Film
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Miklos Jancso and the abuses of power
Miklos Jancso is one of the key figures of Hungarian cinema, but my first encounter with his work didn’t go well. In fact, when I saw the first two parts of his unfinished Vitam et Sanguinam trilogy at the 1981 … Continue reading
Deconstructing Hollywood … for laughs: Hellzapoppin (1941)
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A friend who teaches film to university students occasionally offers a course in comedy. He’d originally thought it would be fun, but was quickly disillusioned. Of course, comedy, more than drama, tends to be specific to its context as jokes … Continue reading
Over-consumption and Diminishing Returns Part 2
Continuing my dialogue with friend Gordon Wilding about the ways in which our relationship to the movies we watch has changed in recent years … I can look back at the years it took me to “possess” the films of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, Directors, Gord Wilding, Movie Theatres
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Over-consumption and Diminishing Returns Part 1
Although I know I’ve enjoyed watching movies pretty much since I can remember, I have few specific memories from childhood. It always amazes me when people have a clear recollection of “the first movie I ever saw” … I know … Continue reading
Roger Ebert 1942-2013
Anyone interested in movies – and particularly anyone who writes about them – had to take note this past week of the death of Roger Ebert, the Chicago-based movie critic who over fifty years became the face and voice of … Continue reading
