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John Huston
August 4, 2009 – 9:12 pm | No Comment
John Huston

Here is a list of some of the films John Huston has directed which I have screened:
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The African Queen (1951)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Misfits (1961)
The Bible: …

Charlie Chaplin: A King in New York
June 23, 2009 – 11:35 am | No Comment
Charlie Chaplin: <em>A King in New York</em>

I can’t remember if I’ve ever actually seen a Chaplin movie in its entirety before A King in New York, and it was not at all what I expected. There are parts of it that …

Land of the Pharoahs (Hawks, 1955)
June 6, 2009 – 8:02 pm | 4 Comments
<em>Land of the Pharoahs</em> (Hawks, 1955)

The director is a genius, but the film is a turkey.
So Peter Bogdanovich is anxious to tell us on the commentary track for Howard Hawks’s sword and sandal epic, Land of the Pharaohs.

The Tragedy of Hamlet (Brook, 2002)
June 3, 2009 – 9:12 pm | No Comment
<em>The Tragedy of Hamlet</em> (Brook, 2002)

“If you can remove or reduce fear, you take the risk. There’s no reason not to. You have an intuition, if you’re scared, you close up, you repress this impulse. But if you’re less scared, …

Nicholas Ray
May 26, 2009 – 2:08 pm | No Comment
Nicholas Ray

“You’re tearing me apart!”
The line–the plaintive cry–is synonymous with Rebel Without A Cause and hence with Nicholas Ray. I hope to say more about Ray as I word through some of his films this summer, …

Ingmar Bergman: (Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955)
May 24, 2009 – 7:54 pm | One Comment
Ingmar Bergman: (<em>Smiles of a Summer Night</em>, 1955)

My relationship with the films of Ingmar Bergman has been analogous to that with a popular elder at a new church: I respect the title and all, but I usually find myself squinting when people …