In today’s Wall Street Journal I pay homage to Jules Dassin, the director who, despite his Folies Bergeres name, was not French but made several classic films including France’s gangster melodrama...
Ocean’s...
Lifestyle If you’ve got a film buff or a friend with an interest in graphic design on your Christmas list, Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design, is a giant, heavily illustrated 428-page coffee...
PJ Media With Christmas and Chanukah right around the corner I thought I’d recommend a couple of books for our readers. I’m hoping that some of my fellow Tatler contributors will share...
Dour Scandinavians update (2)
ORDET (Carl-Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1955, 10)
I saw this film again, on...
White Elephant Rap
COOL AS ICE — David Kellogg / Vanilla Ice, USA, 1991, 11
All right stop collaborate and listen....
C’est moi, c’est Lola
LOLA MONTES (Max Ophuls, France, 1955, 9)
I rented a VHS tape of LOLA MONTES...
★★½ Watched 13 Jul, 2012
John Sturges, USA, 5/10
As close to a present-day Western as anything since the silents, but the "secret" is pretty easy to guess and Sturges...
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Kiss Me Deadly [2] (1955; 106 minutes; Black and White)
Director: Robert Aldrich[1]
Writers: Mickey Spillane (novel), A. I. Bezzerides (screenplay)
Stars: Ralph...
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Ed Wood, Mad Genius: A Critical Study of the Films [2]
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009
“One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others...
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Prometheus and Atlas [2]
London: Arktos, 2016
“A man is, whatever room he is in.”[1]
Christy Mattling: Tellin’ them innocent kids stories...
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James Scott Bell
Manliness: The Robert Mitchum Way
Woodland Hills, Cal.: Compendium Press, 2016
“A man must defend his home, his wife, his children and his Martini.”...
The Night of the Hunter (1955) is often categorized as a film noir, but that is simply unfair. The film misses and breaks too many conven
James Dean is most famous for his role as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause . Although a brilliant and legendary performance, Dean’s role
Somewhat embarrassingly, I never got around to seeing the phantasmagorical film noir (advertised as a ‘beat-noir’) flick Dementia (1
Here, edited a touch, is my review from May of 2007. Re-reading and reliving just what a diseased thing The Good German is, I’m not at all surprised its creator, Steven Soderbergh, has moved on to exalting...
Undoubtedly, Post-World War European art, especially from defeated nations like Germany, Austria, and Italy, oftentimes depicted
Mark at the Movies guest columnist Kathy Shaidle is back, this time with her take on the 1955 Bengali classic, Pather Panchali