The Seven Year Itch
No matter how mundane or commonplace the subject matter, Billy Wilder always seems able to transform his stories into fascinating, and quite often humorous, social commentary. This is as true […]
Tag Archives: 1955
Noirvember 2015: The Big Combo
For the month of November Noirvember, I’ve decided to catch up with some classic pieces of film noir, the American 1940s-50s movement devoted to cynical fast talking anti-heroes, predatory femme […]
Noirvember 2015: Kiss Me Deadly
For the month of November Noirvember, I’ve decided to catch up with some classic pieces of film noir, the American 1940s-50s movement devoted to cynical fast talking anti-heroes, predatory femme […]
Killer’s Kiss
Stanley Kubrick’s second effort, Killer’s Kiss, is notable for two reasons and two reasons only. The first is that it shows just how much Kubrick learned after his first feature, […]
All that Heaven Allows
All that Heaven Allows is classic melodrama, and was dismissed as such on its release. While melodrama and soap operas are still considered low art today, at least this film […]
East of Eden
East of Eden is the Elia Kazan film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel of the same name. Now, I have not read the book, so I’m going into the […]
The Man with the Golden Arm
Though The Man with the Golden Arm is ostensibly about heroin addiction, in actuality it is about much more than that. It is about guilt, desperation, and manipulation, and about […]
The Night of the Hunter
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”-Mathew, 7:15 The Night of the Hunter is a unique film. It is the […]
To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief is definitely a veg-out Hitchcock film; no doubt about it. A lot of people like it; it’s one of his better known films, but personally I […]
The Trouble With Harry
The Trouble with Harry is that he’s dead, and the trouble with everyone else is that they don’t know what do with his body. The trouble with The Trouble with […]
The Soul of the Plot 