ph: Serge Leblon
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Que la bête meure (1969)
A single father is obsessed with murdering the hit&run driver who killed his only child and poses as a screenwriter to get close to the culprit.
A top-rate crime and revenge drama with a relentless view on bourgeois life and one of cinema's most memorable villains.
Halliwell***: "A complex and engrosiing psycological study that ignores the thriller aspects of the story to concentrate on relationships of love and hatred, with a memorable performance from Yanne as an uncouth villain."
Maltin***1/2: "Outstanding film...This may be the best of many fine Chabrol dramas; Yanne and Cellier are unforgettable, the cinematography (by Jean Rabier) beautiful."
Friday, December 11, 2015
First Lines: Mary Roberts Rinehart - The Circular Staircase
This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Hilarious black comedy; the low-budget shows, but it's lively and immensely entertaining.
Halliwell**: "A Corman quickie, allegedly shot in two days, that is a lively, if occasionally ramshackle, comic delight with a notable cameo from Nicholson as a masocist."
Maltin***1/2: "Classic black comedy...Initially infamous as The Film Shot In Two Days, but now considered one of Corman's best pictures. Nicholson has hilarious bit as masochist who thrives on dental pain..."
New Stuff: Fear of Music
Jonathan Lethem contributed to the series, had to get it; of course, I have the Talking Heads album, too.
Scoop (2006)
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Maltin***: "Larkish comedy-fantasy-mystery plays like an afterpiece to MATCH POINT, also set in London...Endearingly silly and off the cuff, but you may to be a Woodyphile to truly enjoy it. Allen is in good comic form as a walking showbusiness cliche."
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
New York
A view of Times Square at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue, New York City, New York,1941
