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Rome, Open City 1945
Didn’t know much about this going in except that it is considered one of the earliest and most important movies in the Italian neorealist movement. I was expecting something a little more documentary style but the movie turned out to be a taught, well made Nazi thriller with a few performers I’d seen in other movies. It is a very frank depiction of Nazi occupied Italy, with all of the fear, uncertainty, paranoia and resistance you’d expect, side by side…
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Obsession 1943
I always heard about Rome: Open City being the formative neorealist movie but then it turns out Ossessione was made two years earlier! I didn’t really feel that strongly about the movie one way or the other but there were a couple of cool shots and Massimo Girotti seemed eerily similar to Jack Nicholson, who would play the same part in Rafelson’s Postman
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Bull 2019
Over the past several years I’ve really been enjoying films made by people who have few other credits (if any) telling stories about people and communities that society as a whole might normally consider unremarkable. It’s why I like a lot of folk music - it seems unpretentious, vulnerable and authentic by nature and always has something to tell us about the human condition that you won’t find in the top 40. These elements can be exploitatively lab-created, but I…
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Billy, How Did You Do It? 1992
Very interesting, mostly an extended informal interview with Billy Wilder talking about his career from the beginning to the making of The Apartment. Wilder seems like one of the least pretentious people in Hollywood history, with very practical, workmanlike ideas towards his films and filmmaking in general. And he’s always had cool hats!
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