Preposterous British boys’ school mystery, with the new instructor being told by the polite bullies who make up his class that they murdered his predecessor and will do the same to him if he doesn’t give them good grades and place their bets. Nobody seems to believe him when he tattles, including wife and headmaster; […]
Daily Archives: February 2, 2008
“We gotta hurry. The revolution is going to happen and we’re going to miss it.” — Jean-Luc Godard, anticipating political upheaval in the U.S. Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in “one […]
Raoul Walsh’s Pursued (1947) had invented the noir Western, with Anthony Mann’s The Furies (1950), Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) and Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar (1954) following suit. The last of these, “a minor film grown to achieve the status of a classic” (Martin Scorsese), inspired the French New Wave. In the U.S. it is […]
Dennis Grunes 