the passionate moviegoer
a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sydney Pollack - filmmaker, actor, a nice man
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Good, gray Sydney Pollack is gone. As one of Hollywood's most reliable mainstream filmmakers, Pollack made movies that the critics gentl...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
"The Notorious Landlady" Surfaces!
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That's Jack Lemmon jumping for joy. Actually, it's a shot from the climatic (and hilarious) foot chase from Richard Quine's lon...
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seductions in the dark: Claude Lelouch's “Roman de gare": A seductive, compulsively watchable cat-and-mouse game
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You're in for a treat. Claude Lelouch, arguably France's most playful filmmaker (even at age 70), has rebounded from his "La Co...
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Killing the Souls of Movie Critics
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A lot has been written recently about movie critics who are dropping like flies - and, by extention, the demise of film criticism in general...
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Monday, May 12, 2008
cinema obscura: Two with Jennifer Jones
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The achingly beautiful Jennifer Jones was an enticing combination of the enigmatic and the sensual. Typically, Hollywood really didn't k...
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