I’ve always had a hard time following plot in films—and why bother?: almost always, only the worst movies are plot-driven. Good or bad, plot is irrelevant to cinema, thank goodness! (Or badness.) But explain this: Claude Sautet’s Classe tous risques, a criminal adventure, is full of plot, loaded to the gills with plot, hardly any […]
Daily Archives: April 24, 2010
Producer James Mason gave himself a big, juicy role: that of private schoolteacher Ed Avery, who moonlights for a taxi company in order to make ends meet, in Nicholas Ray’s minutely observant and sensitive Bigger Than Life, based on a New Yorker article, and one of the few Hollywood films of the fifties to examine […]
Dennis Grunes 