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Casino 1995
Scorsese seems to think that the voiceover is the modern version of the intertitle. At any rate, the meat of Casino is 90% wholly unimpressive montage/voiceover, and if you were to ask ol’ Marty ‘why make a film, why not just write a book?’, he might respond with geriatric gibberish about ‘loving the pictures’ and probably something about the Rolling Stones. Of course the dueling narrations are entirely inappropriate in tone, even nonsensical given the narrative trajectory and, especially considering the…
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Ramrod 1947
The femme fatale as Western lead. Veronica Lake says ‘I want you to stampede my herd’, and the aptly titled Ramrod is as much a film about Veronica Lake’s sex and how it drives men to kill each other, at times even under her command, as it is a film about her daddy issues. Director André de Toth’s breezy debut into the Western genre is the work of a master, gorgeously shot by Russell Harlan; Lake was de Toth’s wife at the time (and up until 1952).
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New Rose Hotel 1998
Like floating on the moon if it were a corporate technopolis. Zero-gravity. Alive in the sea of information.
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