Bump by a half star since I saw it on a gorgeous 35mm print at the academy. Preminger is a master of scope and the two leads have tons of star power.
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Total Recall 1990
One of Verhoevens best pictures and I had the pleasure of seeing it on 35mm at the academy museum on a pristine print. I’m not going to leave a long review but suffice it to say that one of the best things verhoeven does is implicate the audience and their desire to see violence over and over again as a form of modern psychosis we all live through without questioning. From the moment quad goes to recall, everything that we…
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Flame of the Islands 1955
a Macmahonist special! For those unfamiliar, the Macmahonists were a group of french cinephiles and critics who frequented the Cinema Mac Mahon in Paris that specialized in American films and specifically a lot of B American films. Among the auteurs they championed was one Edward Ludwig whose career never had the same trajectory and appreciation as the auteurs championed by the french new wave filmmakers (Hawks, Fuller, etc.). I had not seen a Ludwig movie before, and thanks to the…
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Samson and Delilah 1949
Cecil B. Demille doing his thing: an erotic spectacle masquerading as a religious story. Long before there was James Cameron or Steven Spielberg, there was Cecil B. Demille and he did it better than either man ever could. Behold the splendor and the deluge of insane images that is this picture. The sheer beauty of the technicolor would be enough to please any purest but what Demille does with it here, turning this biblical story into an erotic spectacle around…
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