Karl Malden Please Stop Shouting
Baby Doll (1956)
directed by Elia Kazan
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD at ELO's
There is something truly sinister in those original Benoit, Mississippi faces, and it's a nice take on repressed southern passions to cast them through the failing leaves of an early winter. You either go for Tennessee Williams or you don't - I will say it's a contrast to Regular Lovers, just like the "Rebel Yell" firework is a screaming contrast to a pretty cake-top sparkler.
Tango & Cash (1989)
directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
It's funny, but Kurt Russell sliding down a modified backyard zipline on a prison set looks more impressive than anything computers have made for movies since forever. Can you believe the fake-looking animals in Evan Almighty were actually expensive? Or that Kurt and Sly's shower scene is what the trailer begins with? The late eighties were great enough to make Sylvester Stallone, of all people, the dignified comedic foil, and that makes the eighties great indeed.
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
directed by Sergio Leone
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Syl
James Coburn is the right reason to see any movie, but his westerns show something the Our Man Flints of the world don't make clear. In "Our Man Flint," everyone around him likes Coburn's smile, but "Duck, You Sucker" and Pat Garrett put him at the social periphery, where the feet on the table emphasize the heroics of thought, consideration, and principled fatigue.
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
directed by Preston Sturges
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
I'd avoided this and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek so long because I didn't want to feel the way I did once I'd watched it. What's the fuss? And not that it isn't funny and a little romantic (thank you, Ella), but people talk about Sturges like he was our lone cinematic ironist in a wasteland of popular Dullsville hacks, when in reality Eddie Bracken's mama's boy ends up a lot like he started, sort of sappy and self-involved and maybe mayor but still boob of a pretty schmaltzy American small town.
directed by Elia Kazan
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD at ELO's
There is something truly sinister in those original Benoit, Mississippi faces, and it's a nice take on repressed southern passions to cast them through the failing leaves of an early winter. You either go for Tennessee Williams or you don't - I will say it's a contrast to Regular Lovers, just like the "Rebel Yell" firework is a screaming contrast to a pretty cake-top sparkler.
Tango & Cash (1989)
directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
It's funny, but Kurt Russell sliding down a modified backyard zipline on a prison set looks more impressive than anything computers have made for movies since forever. Can you believe the fake-looking animals in Evan Almighty were actually expensive? Or that Kurt and Sly's shower scene is what the trailer begins with? The late eighties were great enough to make Sylvester Stallone, of all people, the dignified comedic foil, and that makes the eighties great indeed.
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
directed by Sergio Leone
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Syl
James Coburn is the right reason to see any movie, but his westerns show something the Our Man Flints of the world don't make clear. In "Our Man Flint," everyone around him likes Coburn's smile, but "Duck, You Sucker" and Pat Garrett put him at the social periphery, where the feet on the table emphasize the heroics of thought, consideration, and principled fatigue.
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
directed by Preston Sturges
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
I'd avoided this and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek so long because I didn't want to feel the way I did once I'd watched it. What's the fuss? And not that it isn't funny and a little romantic (thank you, Ella), but people talk about Sturges like he was our lone cinematic ironist in a wasteland of popular Dullsville hacks, when in reality Eddie Bracken's mama's boy ends up a lot like he started, sort of sappy and self-involved and maybe mayor but still boob of a pretty schmaltzy American small town.
posted by NPK at 9:03 AM
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