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Saturday, March 12, 2022
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Author: Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
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Flight to Nowhere (1946)
A former FBI agent turned pilot finds himself embroiled in murders and blackmail, when he flies a countess and her friends to Death Valley.
Low-budget spy
thriller confuses with a hamstrung plot, hardly any suspense (lots of
the action is off-camera) and mediocre performances.
Maltin BOMB: "Ultracheap, ultraboring..."
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Paris Calligrammes (2020)
Ulrike Ottinger, then a young painter, lived in Paris in the 1960s. Now a film-maker, she looks back on that time, weaving memories of the Parisian life and the upheavals of the time into a cinematic poem with the city at its center.
Very intimate loving and poetic portrait of Paris through the eyes of a German artist, filmmaker and photographer actually transcends the personal perspective with is montage of relevant images and events into a very good documentary.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Prince of the City (1981)
A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realizes he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
Criticized in comparison to the director's previous movie Serpico with the same topic and for its length, Prince of the City in fact presents
a much more nuanced, complex and dark study of police corruption with a
large cast of characters and the length actually helps present them
with depth; great performances throughout.
Halliwell*: "Punishingly long police semi-documentary on real events and apparently filmed with a political motive. Excellent acting and production detail do not prevent the enterprise from seeming like a half-speed version of Serpico."
Maltin***: "Emotionally powerful story...Standout performances by Williams, fellow cop Orbach, weasely prosecutor Tolkan, but film's extreme length hurts overall impact; there are more details than really necessary to tell the story."
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
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