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Thoughts on THE HIDDEN (1987)
The Hidden (1987) is a tough film for me to review objectively. I sought it out right after I discovered David Lynch’s bizarre masterpiece, Twin Peaks, a show I have loved since I was a young […]
Month: June 2018
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Ambitiously Uneven: THE WAY WEST
The Way West, a sweeping 1967 Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and produced by Harold Hecht, has a lot working in its favor: stars, scenery, a spacious story, and a stirring sense of pioneering […]
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Eclipse Series 45: Claude Autant-Lara—Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France
Few filmmakers have career codas more disheartening than Claude Autant-Lara. Though dismissed by members of the French New Wave as part of the artistically sterile “tradition of quality” that supposedly plagued the French film industry […]
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Under Pressure: Michael Curtiz’s THE BREAKING POINT
Howard Hawks supposedly bet Ernest Hemingway that he could make a good movie out of the author’s worst book. That book, it was decided, was Hemingway’s 1937 novel, “To Have and Have Not.” And the […]