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Tarred & Feathered: December 2006

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Sunday, December 31. A young couple, bride 18, man 22, came here for their honeymoon. The day after the wedding he was found to have scarlet fever and in ten days he was dead. How cruel it is when pain and sorrow come to young things, - they are so helpless; what can they do with it? What a rush of desire to go to them and wrap them about in one's long-accustomedness until the little bewildered soul has woven for itself some sort of casting. Alice James, 1989]. Saturday, December 30. As in, a readily-acq...

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I Found It at the Movies: Detangling a Master's Thornier period

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Monday, April 14, 2008. Detangling a Master's Thornier period. If there were ever a single figure for Alfred Hitchcock who undermined his claims to the authorship of any of his films, it would be David O. Selznick. Hitchcock’s first producer in the United States, Selznick’s sensibilities were in stark contrast to those of Hitchcock. Hitchcock dismissed the first American film he directed,. Selznick’s voice is more difficult to conclusively infer compared to. Has According to Cohen, this is Selznick&#8217...

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I Found It at the Movies: Gus Van Sant's Newest Masterpiece

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Gus Van Sant's Newest Masterpiece. Opens this Friday at the Angelika Film Center. In Manhattan, and opens wide in two weeks. Gus Van Sant, 2007). I'm writing this a little out of order. Sorry. I didn't do so well in creative writing . . . The event in question is a death that Alex causes, but is difficult to classify as murder. The police certainly do, but within the diegesis of the film, they never discover the truth. Alex can barely comprehend what has occurred, but it...It is...

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I Found It at the Movies: December 2007

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007. Happy/Merry 25th of December! In the spirit of the day, here are two old posts from last year- two movies that, every December, find a way into both my DVD player and my heart. Enjoy. Raymond Briggs/Dianne Jackson, 1982). One settles in to watch this short as a lighthearted holiday short, a 26-minute piece of children's fluff which will allow parents a moment of respite from the squalor that is the anticipation of Christmas. But The Snowman. What makes The Snowman. Pesci and S...

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I Found It at the Movies: June 2007

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Sunday, June 17, 2007. Reflections on Orson Welles, Pt. III. REFLECTIONS ON ORSON WELLES, PT. III: THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Orson Welles came to make his penultimate Hollywood film in September 1946. He had finished work on The Stranger. Nine months previously, and had nearly bankrupted himself over the summer producing a touring theatrical adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days. Compares it to the opening shot of Touch of Evil. The dialogue between Michael and Elsa after he rescues her from being mugg...

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I Found It at the Movies: January 2008

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Thursday, January 31, 2008. End of the Year Blog-a-thon, Pt. VI: The Ones I Missed. I saw 75 new films in 2007 (a new record! In a perfect world, I would've seen around 200 or so. Here are 21 that were essential viewing, but still slipped through my fingers. Can't see everything, after all. Day Night Day Night. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. West of the Tracks. The Wind that Shakes the Barley. As I say, there's always next year. Thanks for takin' the journey with me. I'll see you in 2008. Namely, ref...

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I Found It at the Movies: A Conversation about "Contempt," Part III

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008. A Conversation about "Contempt," Part III. Maddog (a far better. For such a discourse, I should think),. You will never find me disagreeing with you when it comes to. It is the nuclear bomb planted in the heart of pre-'68 narrative cinema, including Godard's own oeuvre. As you, I, and countless Godard enthusiasts (and haters, for that matter) know, the man never returned to that kind of filmmaking again, even after 1980, when. Sauve qui peut, la vie. Every Man for Himself. Is an a...

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I Found It at the Movies: March 2008

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Thursday, March 20, 2008. A Conversation about "Contempt," Part I. For the next several days- or until they want to kill each other, whichever comes first- perennial odd couple Evan Davis and Madelyn Sutton will hash it out about one of Jean-Luc Godard's most celebrated early works. Check back regularly for updates. Is currently playing at Film Forum. In downtown Manhattan until Tuesday, April 8th. The film is also available on an excellent DVD. From the Criterion Collection. Lacks the puckish anarchy of.

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I Found It at the Movies: April 2008

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Monday, April 14, 2008. Detangling a Master's Thornier period. If there were ever a single figure for Alfred Hitchcock who undermined his claims to the authorship of any of his films, it would be David O. Selznick. Hitchcock’s first producer in the United States, Selznick’s sensibilities were in stark contrast to those of Hitchcock. Hitchcock dismissed the first American film he directed,. Selznick’s voice is more difficult to conclusively infer compared to. Has According to Cohen, this is Selznick&#8217...

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I Found It at the Movies: May 2008

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Saturday, May 10, 2008. Iron Man," Morality, and the Military-Industrial Complex. I recently had a conversation with a man who reminded me that whenever one evaluates a work of art, but especially a movie (or screenplay, which is what we were actually talking about), one always brings an “agenda” to the process of judgment. “Did this movie fit the parameters of what I expected from it? To crystallize these thoughts is how blatantly the movie made me aware of my own agenda as I watched it. Offers up a par...