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Fritz Lang – M (1931)
An exceptional film by the exceptional Fritz Lang. Peter Lorre at his European best. Profound realization of Berlin between the wars. Remarkable cinematography. Further, the film demonstrates that...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train (1951)
One of Hitchcock’s best. Lengthy sequences that sometimes seem to continue too long prove merely to keep one’s view in a kind of suspended concentration. Like being on a merry-go-round. Robert Walker...
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John Ford – The Informant (1935)
A well constructed narrative that works at several levels: the political context, personal intellectual capability, loyalties, the charity of giving, forgiveness, and the longing for true liberty. It...
View ArticleVictor Fleming – Red Dust (1932)
Fine screenplay with witty and acerbic dialogue, mostly for Jean Harlow, who plays the woman discarded; and also fine acting by Clark Gable and Mary Astor, the woman gained. Astor, equally...
View ArticleSidney Franklin – The Good Earth (1937)
A glimpse into early 20th century China, and its mores, poverty, the value of the land, the necessity of the harvest, and family relationships. The sequence treating of the famine, the migration to the...
View ArticleJohn Ford – Wagon Master (1950)
Ford regarded this as one of his finest films, and there is something to the spare, almost cold, cinematography of the landscape that holds the eye. The theme is the establishment of community, in this...
View ArticleJohn Ford – The Searchers (1956)
One of Ford’s best films, with a great role for John Wayne. The text is reclamation, and the subtext who warrants it − and how morality is relative, and, if not exposed by, is aware of, guilt. When I...
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