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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.

Ingmar Bergman: (Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955)
May 24, 2009 – 7:54 pm | No 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 …