ph: Gianluca Fontana
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Beyond (2012)
A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.
The movie starts promising with atmospheric settings in the Alaskan landscape, but the good cast can't help raise this standard crime mystery full of the usual cliches.
Friday, October 2, 2015
New York
A view up Fifth Avenue with the Heckscher Building, or Crown Building, and residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1921
The Movies I Watched in September
Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra 2002 6
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl 1990 5
Counter Investigation 2007 7
Detour 1945 8
Diabolique 1955 10
Dressed to Kill 1980 7
He Walked by Night 1948 7
Hollow Triumph 1948 6
Le Sauvage 1975 5
Lessons of Darkness 1992 8
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 8
Mud 2012 7
Mémoires pour Simone 1986 7
Nothing Personal 2009 7
Odd Man Out 1947 8
Redacted 2007 7
Reign of Terror 1949 7
Scream of Stone 1991 5
Teenage Wolfpack 1956 7
The Big Wedding 2013 5
The Lost Moment 1947 7
The Sentinel 2006 6
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 7
Tides of War 2005 5
Trespass 1992 6
Und Äktschn! 2014 5
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl 1990 5
Counter Investigation 2007 7
Detour 1945 8
Diabolique 1955 10
Dressed to Kill 1980 7
He Walked by Night 1948 7
Hollow Triumph 1948 6
Le Sauvage 1975 5
Lessons of Darkness 1992 8
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 8
Mud 2012 7
Mémoires pour Simone 1986 7
Nothing Personal 2009 7
Odd Man Out 1947 8
Redacted 2007 7
Reign of Terror 1949 7
Scream of Stone 1991 5
Teenage Wolfpack 1956 7
The Big Wedding 2013 5
The Lost Moment 1947 7
The Sentinel 2006 6
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 7
Tides of War 2005 5
Trespass 1992 6
Und Äktschn! 2014 5
Thursday, October 1, 2015
New Stuff: Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
Essential companion book to Maltin's annual Movie Guide.
Le sauvage (1975)
A woman flees her fiance in Venezuela and hooks up with a perfumer on the lam from his wife.
Lively French screwball comedy; the stars play fine, but the movie is too often loud and enervating.
Halliwell (no star): "A promising and amusing start is squandered in the tedious island sequences of this patchy romantic comedy, which does however leave one with the sense of freshness and optimism rare in the cinema of the seventies."
Maltin**1/2: "Nothing special, but easy to take."
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
First Lines: Caroline Graham - The Killings at Badger's Drift
She had been walking in the woods just before teatime when she saw them.
