the passionate moviegoer
a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
cinema obscura: Stuart Rosenberg's "The April Fools" (1969)
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Some good news this week. A lost Jack Lemmon film has been rescued from oblivion, dusted off and made available on DVD, letterboxed, by...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
still lost
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Quietly haunted by Stephen Frears' affecting new film, "Philomena," I felt compelled to seek out the source material of s...
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Monday, January 13, 2014
indelible moment: John Huston's "The Misfits"
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"Horse killers! Killers! Murderers! "You're liars! All of you, liars! "You're ...
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Jonze's "her" / connection: "Harold & Maude"
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Credit: Rick Howard Company LLC/Warner Bros. Pictures Spike Jonze’s singular “her” is a woozy fantasy/nightmare in which an isolated, se...
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Wells' "August: Osage County" / connection: Mike Nichols' "Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" plus Elia Kazan's "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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There was only one way for John Wells to direct Tracy Letts’ iconic, imposing 2007 play “August: Osage County” – it won both the Pulitzer...
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