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Howard Hawks double-feature
Still not so sure I understand the auteur-stamp of Howard Hawks (some characteristics of which were discussed after watching His Girl Friday). But gosh does he make entertaining movies. Both of these...
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Birth (2004, Jonathan Glazer)
“I thought you were my dead husband, but you’re just a little boy in my bathtub.” The director is a different person from Jon Glaser, the stand-up comic I’ve seen a few times performing with Jon...
View ArticleWritten on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)
Holy awesome, an incredible movie. The actors are OUT there, Rock Hudson all repressed, Dorothy Malone all seething sexuality, Robert Stack extreme in everything he does, and poor Lauren Bacall...
View ArticleMurder on the Orient Express (1974, Sidney Lumet)
Final tally: Perkins > Bacall > Gielgud > Connery > Cassel > Balsam > Roberts > Bisset > (good/bad frontier) Widmark > Hiller > Quilley > York > Bergman > Finney...
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