Wednesday, October 16, 2019
“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”
The post Film Review: At BUFF-o-WEEN — The “Blood & Flesh” of Al Adamson, King of the Shoestring…
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Director Howard Hawks’ signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish.
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Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:44AMSunday, February 17, 2019
Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PMThursday, January 31, 2019
Even an imperfect work-for-hire like Damaged Lives can show the touch of an artist.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PMMonday, April 2, 2018
The landscape and architecture are beautifully photographed, but more important are the array of faces and the music of the voices.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:52PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Tehran Taboo –- which never would have been allowed to be filmed in its title city—is technically accomplished in its often gorgeous visuals and its textured sound design.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:10PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Dorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
The Testament of Dr. Cordelier is not a horror movie --it is more of a dark comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMFriday, April 28, 2017
From the homogeneous small town of Spettacolo, we travel to One October's ethnic gumbo of eight million in New York City.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:31AMThursday, April 27, 2017
The absurdist comedy Sylvio suffers from chronic low energy, but Tormenting the Hen is mysterious and magnetic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Finding Kukan is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:54PMFriday, March 10, 2017
Marcel Pagnol’s great Marseille Trilogy is a tragicomic love story set on the bustling, sun-drenched docks of a Mediterranean port.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMFriday, January 27, 2017
There was a good energy to the depiction of movie-Woody’s nocturnal odyssey, and a few funny bits.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
A 30-film series dedicated to Busby Berkeley, Hollywood’s architect of mind-blowing musical production numbers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PMFriday, November 4, 2016
The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24PMThursday, September 15, 2016
Demon is a powerful movie that, once seen, can’t be easily shaken off.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce's mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope's disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Popstar’s silliness is monumental, and wonderful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:19AMSunday, May 15, 2016
A Bigger Splash has a pleasing richness wherein the sensual elements bind the individual characters to each other, and to nature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:50PMThursday, May 12, 2016
A rare opportunity to see -- on the big screen -- a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMSaturday, April 30, 2016
One of the most gorgeous films in recent memory, Boone is sure to give you an appreciation of the enormous work done on Boone Farm.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:01PMFriday, April 29, 2016
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil travels to Sarasota to star in a biopic where she will be filmed re-enacting TV broadcaster Christine Chubbuck’s suicide.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PMGarrett Zevgetis’s multi-dimensional documentary about the struggles of Michelle Smith, legally blind and diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, is hardly predictable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Varieté will be the tenth score composed by a Sheldon Mirowitz class and played by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:46PMMonday, February 8, 2016
The Lady in the Van is quite enjoyable, but has a significant flaw.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Jean Epstein's body of work is full of pleasures, surprises, and the revelation that this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMMonday, December 28, 2015
I loved this book, and it will hold a cherished place on my comedy book-shelf.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:10AMSaturday, November 28, 2015
Yet another cinematic variation on Mary Shelley's novel -- and this one too often opts for slick jolts of adrenalin over credibility.
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