There isn’t one of us who is unfamiliar with High Sierra, the good, solid film directed by Raoul Walsh from a script by John Huston and W. R. Burnett, adapted from the latter’s novel. This is the one about Roy Earle, a thief whose toughness invites the press nickname of “Mad Dog” that his streaks […]
Daily Archives: October 19, 2007
Kenji Mizoguchi’s first great film, Naniwa erejî, tells a complicated story, the through-line of which is this: Ayako Murai, a young telephone switchboard operator, becomes a kept woman in order to spare her father imprisonment after he has been caught embezzling, falls to being something in between a kept woman and a prostitute in order […]
Dennis Grunes 