I would gladly give notes to the writer and director of Hoosiers to turn this movie into something, at least, ahum, much more watchable. As it stands, my input not yet solicited, yelling at the TV seemed the best response to this most sappy and disingenuously crowd-pleasing excuse for a rousing drama. Cue the sweeping orchestral score. While I'm not gonna bother to dig into all the ways this movie treats its audience like the numbskull jackal townspeople depicted in…
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Evergreen 1964
A simple but very well executed student film, Manzarek artfully layers each scene of Evergreen with evocative and cinematic camera work, editing, acting, voice-over dialogue and music to convey distinct shifts in mood and tone. Much to his credit, he also succeeds in presenting the action and theme at their simplest, thus avoiding the excessive abstraction of so many experimental films of this era. Evergreen is fundamentally a slight meditation on love, lust, desire and relationship pared down to an appropriately sized narrative arc in this vaguely experimental student short.
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The Fabelmans 2022
Some time ago I noticed a tendency of people in their 70s (mainly men, I suppose) to feel their life stories bear conversion to the written word. Artists, of course, constantly draw upon their lived experience – and maybe, even, the facts of their lives – for inspiration and new material to be reworked into art. But even regular folks – people who before can not claim ever to have picked up a pen – tend to feel the particulars…
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He Walked by Night 1948
He walked some, he loitered a little, he ran a bit and then he drove. Sure, at night, but occasionally in the light of day, noir be damned. Isn't the suspense just killing you? In the same vein as Dragnet (there are two million stories in the Big City and, goddamn it, they're all true!) this banal murder drama just might be the Big Movie that put Los Angeles on the urban crime map and Jack Webb in the cop…
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