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KL has now taken care of Kazan and the 1970s. THE VISITORS is CASUALTIES OF WAR by way of STRAW DOGS, and shares a cinematographer with WANDA. Has always been difficult to see, so the release is welcome, and with the recent THE LAST TYCOON gives us Kazan's final thoughts on masculinity--toxic...

Alan Jay Lerner loved a plot where a woman comes on the scene, and disrupts a male pair/community: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS--Lise--Jerry/Adam/Henri BRIGADOON--Fiona--Tommy/Jeff MY FAIR LADY--Eliza--Higgins/Pickering CAMELOT--Guinevere--Arthur/Lancelot/other knights The biggest variation is found...

The giveaway line is: "Also, if the dialog is reflective of the quality of the screenplay, then the writing must have been atrocious because every sequence features badly broken lines that any self-respected editor would have cut." Did the reviewer fail to notice the writing credit: Harold...

Watched MISSISSIPPI MERMAID for the first time in years, and it is just as beautiful as ever. Not given great love upon its initial release, I feel it is one of Truffaut's best--merging his Renoir sensibility with his Hitchcock one. The other instance where he is successful in doing so is with...

Agreed. And ADVISE AND CONSENT needs a blu-ray release.

RAH, you are very wise in liking this movie, which is not appreciated enough. Kazan admitted he did not understand the script. He said to Pinter: "It's seems like these people are under water," and Pinter replied, "Well, they are, aren't they." So content with a paycheck, Kazan focused on the...

Billy Wilder is the Mitteleuropa filmmaker who gets accused of cynicism, but Preminger is up there with in the trilogy of films: ADVISE AND CONSENT; THE CARDINAL; IN HARM'S WAY. In A&C, all the political finangling ends up with one gay men killing himself, whose sin (whatever it was) is...

Good thought. Stewart/Day are what happens if Stewart/Kelly get married. Playful sparring becomes tedious bickering.

I have always thought that Grant should have played Cadell for the character's first appearance at the party, with Stewart taking over the role when Cadell returns. Hitchcock is brazen enough to reference Grant in the dialogue that Cadell/Stewart has to be part of, so Grant was on his mind as...

Thank you, Robert. Thank you again. The idea has floated in my head for a while, but this restoration showed me that it made visual/aural sense as well. The embassy sequence is not an anti-climax to the Albert Hall sequence any more. The embassy is now another venue where Jo must use her...

I saw the film at Film Forum (NYC) tonight, and my high estimation of it has ascended even further. The films feels like Hitchcock's attempt to make a Douglas Sirk movie in his own style. He lets the interplay/bickering between Ben and Jo play out at length, with the payoff being in the...

Agreed. From the opening following the car across Los Angeles, one has the feeling that Aldrich is reporting on L.A./America in the very moment of his making the film. I look at Aldrich's 70's movies as second swings at genres where had already made classics. HUSTLE is KISS ME DEADLY...

1. I think it is interesting how A FOREIGN AFFAIR anticipates SUNSET BLVD. in having two women vie for the same man. Wilder always loved the triangle construction, e.g., SABRINA, THE APARTMENT. 2. I take your point about John Lund's performance, but want to dissent. MacMurray and Grant...