Dublin, 1922, during the Irish Rebellion. In with the fog is Frankie McPhillip, I.R.A. member on whose head the British have set a £20 bounty. He is informed on by Gypo Nolan, who, court-martialed out of the Organization months earlier, hasn’t been able to earn money, the British and the Irish both mistrusting him. During […]
Daily Archives: November 5, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis I kissed you because I loved you—for a minute. Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made seven films together. The best are the first […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Frank Capra’s wonderful It Happened One Night won 1934’s best picture Oscar, but, that year, Howard Hawks made a sharper “screwball” comedy: adapted by […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis One of American filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty’s works of “re-created everyday life,” Man of Aran documents the harsh existence of island villagers thirty miles […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Blondes are scarce around here. King Kong is a movie about the making of a movie titled King Kong. Carl Denham takes his Depression-era […]
Dennis Grunes 