Masters of Cinema
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James Grady’s novel Six Days Of The Condor was published just a year before Sydney Pollack’s big-screen adaptation, and yet almost every aspect of the story was changed. Read my… Read More
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Released in 1952, Fixed Bayonets! marked the first studio picture directed by Samuel Fuller, and his second in a row that would depict the still-in-progress Korean War. Read my review Read More
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Heralded as possibly the greatest martial arts film ever made, King Hu’s A Touch Of Zen stands apart from most other films in the wuxia genre. Read my review Read More
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Considered by many to be the architect of wuxia cinema, King Hu was to martial arts was John Ford was to the western. Beginning with his 1966 Shaw Brothers adventure… Read More
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A couple of weeks ago I was invited to join hosts Joakim Thiesen and Tom Jennings on their Masters of Cinema Cast to discuss a release of my choice from… Read More
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, The Naked Prey remains the only film directed by Cornel Wilde to be widely available, a situation that based on this example, is a… Read More
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Known primarily for his war films and crime dramas, American director Samuel Fuller also directed a quartet of westerns, the last of which being 1957’s Forty Guns. Read my review Read More
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Perhaps best known as the film for which a ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal won herself a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon is a beautifully constructed Depression-era caper… Read More
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Perhaps best known as the film for which a ten-year-old Tatum O’Neal won herself a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon is a beautifully constructed Depression-era caper… Read More
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It is no secret that Sean Connery grew to hate James Bond long before he stopped playing the character. In fact, he was so reluctant to return as 007 for… Read More
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It is no secret that Sean Connery grew to hate James Bond long before he stopped playing the character. In fact, he was so reluctant to return as 007 for… Read More
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Smart, stylish, insightful and brimming with technical inventiveness, Stanley Donen’s Two For The Road is a wonderful examination of the modern marriage whose influence can still be felt in Hollywood… Read More
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Douglas Fairbanks, “the first King of Hollywood”, is today remembered as the star of numerous silent swashbuckling epics, including The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood. However,… Read More
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Douglas Fairbanks, “the first King of Hollywood”, is today remembered as the star of numerous silent swashbuckling epics, including The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood. Read… Read More
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For a long time this early 80s Sam Fuller thriller was all but forgotten, shelved upon original release, and only re-released in the US by the Criterion Collection in recent… Read More
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A strange little film from US director Antonio Campos that sees Simon, and American uni grad head off to Paris after a messy break-up with his girlfriend. While there he… Read More
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Fritz Lang’s excellent sequel to his silent epic Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (which I’ve not yet seen) sees the eponymous master criminal incarcerated in a mental asylum, where he perpetually… Read More
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My first daliance with Douglas Sirk saw me inadvertently stumble onto a classic. Rock Hudson plays an ambitious journalist, who bumbles into the world of daredevil stunt pilots and gatecrashes… Read More
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