Wednesday, April 5 2006
Stalag 17: Special Collector’s Edition (1952)
This is a Billy Wilder movie, so there's a darker side to the shenanigans, but it's also a post-war Hollywood blockbuster.
Wednesday, March 23 2005
Laura (1944)
Waldo is so deliciously dark and mean-spirited, so loquaciously intolerant of those he deems beneath him, that he's delightful.
Monday, February 7 2005
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
The film's primary appeal is the bizarre turn by Noel Coward as Wilson (one of several 'eccentrics' the film trots out to otherize London even as it pathologizes at least one of the yanks).
Tuesday, December 9 2003
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Draws much of its visual and dramatic effectiveness from Preminger's intelligent use of the screen process of the 1950s, Cinemascope.
