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Favorite People: Marcello Mastroianni

By Rick, on February 24th, 2009 |

A post over at Marilyn’s got me thinking about Marcello Mastroianni, and then, lo and behold, this morning on Turner Classic Movies, there he was trying to get into Sophia Loren’s pants in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. So it seemed only right that, scouring around for post topics, I should write about him.

IMDB lists over [...]

Sven Nykvist

By Rick, on November 14th, 2008 |

Although Sven Nykvist worked with other directors during his long career, it’s arguably with Ingmar Bergman that he did his greatest work. He took the luminescent, overcast Northern light and sculpted it like a Renaissance [...]

Trailer Lazy: Marxist Filmmaker Edition

By Rick, on September 19th, 2008 |

Ok, so it’s not a trailer. But I’ve been thinking a lot about film ethics lately (and taking it out on some hard-working bloggers). It’s something I know little about, except the basic arguments surrounding realism and expressionism and the like. But it seems to me that it’s something that is in short supply [...]

The Wonder of it All

By Rick, on September 16th, 2008 |

Roger Ebert’s blog is quickly becoming one of my favorite stops on the ol’ Internet Highway. There’s an humanism about his writing, and a sense of wonder about the movies that all his years as a film critic have yet to blunt. I think he’s softened a bit since his health problems became so serious [...]

Queen of the Indies

By Rick, on September 12th, 2008 |

I first came across Catherine Keener in Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich ,where she completely blew away Cameron Diaz. Diaz was “playing down,” with a frizzy brown wig that was supposed to show she was some kind of “serious actress.” But from the first shot of Keener, with her shark-like smile, threatening to engulf and [...]

There’s a Drunken Hungarian with a Cheese Roll on His Head

By Rick, on August 29th, 2008 |

There, Lapper … try to tell me I stole this post title! I dare you!

Woody-isms

By Rick, on August 28th, 2008 |

People in Europe still like Woody

Woody Allen’s new Vicky Cristina Barcelona is getting decidedly mixed reviews, and some of the negative reviews are like they’ve been personally betrayed or something by Woody . . . they’re like critics scorned, saying things like “the same old tripe he’s been doing since ‘Annie Hall’” and “why [...]

Remembering Mrs. Robinson

By Rick, on August 17th, 2008 |

Anne Bancroft

The past few days we’ve been showing my sister and niece around Alabama during their whirlwind visit from the Olson ancestral home in Washington State. Thursday was our “Southern Heritage Tour,” wherein we saw Antebellum homes, alligator ponds, and Klan marching grounds. Friday was “Local Culture Day,” during which we ate soul food [...]