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I have always been a sucker for a film’s ending. It can be sappy or intense, but mostly I prefer those that define creative writing. Lately, however, most videos or posts define “ending” as the climax or twist well before the film actually ends.
This ongoing series has the intention of giving credit to some […]
So Oldboy‘s coming out soon. You can check me off as a fan in the original department, which justifies my anxious trepidations just thinking of Spike Lee’s “creative” choices. But that could be my over-worrisome nature talking, making an issue out of absolutely nothing. I mean how bad could an American remake of a well-crafted, highly […]
I have always been a sucker for a film’s ending. It can be sappy or intense, but mostly I prefer those that define creative writing. Lately, however, most videos or posts define “ending” as the climax or twist well before the film actually ends.
This ongoing series has the intention of giving credit to some […]
Letter Never Sent (1959)
Spine No. 601
DVD
The Film:
the directing: Mikhail Kalatozov
the writing: Grigori Koltunov, Valeri Osipov, Viktor Rozov
the acting: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Tatyana Samoilova, Vasili Livanov
For some reason, after much debate of what film to watch, finally sitting down and plopping the DVD in, I was not expecting much […]
I have always been a sucker for a film’s ending. It can be sappy or intense, but mostly I prefer those that define creative writing. Lately, however, most videos or posts define “ending” as the climax or twist well before the film actually ends.
This ongoing series has the intention of giving credit to some […]
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Spine No. 657
DVD
The Film:
the directing: Delmer Daves
the writing: Elmore Leonard (story), Halsted Welles (screenplay)
the acting: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr
Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) is a notorious outlaw freshly captured after pulling off a job that resulted in two deaths – both by his […]
Scrounging through my film collection, I’ll admit I had a difficult time picking the right one for this fine holiday. My mind first wandered to war films – Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, or even The Hurt Locker – but then I quickly thought better of it. I realized I did not want to […]
Most conversations entailing any scent of Alfred Hitchcock tend to revolve around the second half of his filmography; mainly his work from 1940 and on. Not to take anything away from that era, as his reputation and skill certainly rose over the years fortifying the greatness of his films. Even looking back to 1935 is […]
One of the greatest attributes a film can possess is being timeless. In basic terms, this means a film made say forty years ago that appealed to its societal culture would do the same in ours today. Almost sixty-eight years later, Detour hasn’t lost a drop of its appeal. What isn’t to love about this film […]
Family values are bestowed at the core of each individual as they blossom into independence and responsibility, or at least I thought. Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story taught me something different about what it means to be family. More importantly, what it means to be a child of my parents. You can argue about tradition or cultural […]
