Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
[See discussion under “My Diary” for July 12, 2012]
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Earlier this year, in a review of Panic by Henry Bromell, I observed that it was possible to appreciate a film which is an impressive bit of propaganda for a political position with which you profoundly disagree. Just think of Leni Riefenstahl’s The Triumph of the Will. Nowadays, the most assiduous ideologues among film-makers are…
. . .and the bad guys live happily ever after with their ill-gotten gains. Ho-hum. What a cliché this is becoming.
The iron rule in Hollywood is that if you’ve got a hit, you’ve got to have a sequel. But what happens when the hit depends, as last year’s Blair Witch Project did, on a necessarily temporary illusion of reality? Fool me once and I’ll give you a good review; fool me twice and I’m an…
A touching and well-made romantic comedy from Argentina that manages to squeeze a bit more juice out of the familiar trope of the harried businessman who must learn to smell the roses
Well, they got the loathing part right anyway. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam, is very nearly as unwatchable as the book by Hunter S. Thompson on which it is based is unreadable. In spite of the presence of Johnny Depp, for whose talent I have considerable respect, in the Raul…
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