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Director Howard Hawks' signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish. The post Film Review: "The Complete Howard Hawks" " Ma…
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Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism,…
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Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature"he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.
The landscape and architecture are beautifully photographed, but more important are the array of faces and the music of the voices.
Tehran Taboo "- which never would have been allowed to be filmed in its title city"is technically accomplished in its often gorgeous visuals and its textured sound design.
Dorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.
The Testament of Dr. Cordelier is not a horror movie --it is more of a dark comedy.
From the homogeneous small town of Spettacolo, we travel to One October's ethnic gumbo of eight million in New York City.
The absurdist comedy Sylvio suffers from chronic low energy, but Tormenting the Hen is mysterious and magnetic.
Finding Kukan is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation.
Marcel Pagnol's great Marseille Trilogy is a tragicomic love story set on the bustling, sun-drenched docks of a Mediterranean port.
There was a good energy to the depiction of movie-Woody's nocturnal odyssey, and a few funny bits.
A 30-film series dedicated to Busby Berkeley, Hollywood's architect of mind-blowing musical production numbers.
The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times.
Demon is a powerful movie that, once seen, can't be easily shaken off.
What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce's mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope's disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Popstar's silliness is monumental, and wonderful.
A Bigger Splash has a pleasing richness wherein the sensual elements bind the individual characters to each other, and to nature.
A rare opportunity to see -- on the big screen -- a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.
One of the most gorgeous films in recent memory, Boone is sure to give you an appreciation of the enormous work done on Boone Farm.
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil travels to Sarasota to star in a biopic where she will be filmed re-enacting TV broadcaster Christine Chubbuck's suicide.