Review: Crime and Passion
[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] A well-researched case history would probably be more relevant than a conventional review in determining Crime and Passion’s just place in the...
View Article‘Family Plot': A Diamond in the Rough
by Evan Morgan Alfred Hitchcock’s career proper begins with a blonde girl’s dying scream and ends on a similarly coiffed woman’s knowing wink. These bookends aren’t indicative of some tonal change over...
View ArticleReview: Day of the Locust
[Originally published in Movietone News 43, September 1975] Maybe one of the reasons I don’t much care for the John Schlesinger film of Day of the Locust is an attitude towards his characters—Nathanael...
View ArticleReview: Law and Disorder
[Originally published in Movietone News 37, November 1974] Ivan Passer must have taken another look at his countryman Milos Forman’s American picture, Taking Off, before addressing himself to Law and...
View ArticleEast Egg, West Egg, Rotten Egg: ‘The Great Gatsby’
[Originally published in Movietone News 31, April 1974] A film made from a novel sets itself a double task. First, like all movies, it must strive to be good cinema; second, it must try to fulfill the...
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