Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, July 18, 2025
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One of Sidney Poitier’s most persuasive film roles occurs in the lesser known but exceptional cold war thriller The Bedford Incident: Hidden Gem #32 and previously recommended here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, July 11, 2025
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After her breakthrough role in Joseph von Sternberg's The Blue Angel made in Germany, Marlene Dietrich made six more films with the autocratic director in the U.S. The Scarlet Empress (1934), previously reviewed here, is arguably the duo’s most accomplished.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (reviewed here) remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, July 7, 2025
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My next recommendation is Howard Hawks’ lightening fast comedy/romance His Girl Friday (1940), reviewed here and blasting off Monday, July 7th at 3 pm PDT.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, July 4, 2025
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1972's The Getaway is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, June 27, 2025
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A top of the line screwball comedy released the same year as Sullivan’s Travels and, even more remarkably, from the same writer (co-writer here along with Monckton Hoffe) / director is The Lady Eve (1941) reviewed here.
