It is the birthday today of one of my favorite singers, Julie London, who died, you will recall, seven years ago. In addition to being a wonderful stylist, with a nuanced, smokily crystalline, delicately whisky voice, London had beautiful bone structure. Alas, she was a terrible actress! She was married to Jack Webb and jazz […]
Daily Archives: September 26, 2007
Usually the heist or robbery doesn’t arrive until the climax, and it unfolds after-hours in near silence in the city. In Jean-Pierre Melville’s A Cop, the bank robbery in a western French coastal town opens the film in waning daylight as a storm rages. Inside the bank, robbers don sunglasses as the crashing sound of […]
Dennis Grunes 