Growing Pains: Kazuya Tsurumaki’s “FLCL”

By Bob Clark When it comes to anime directors, like any filmmakers, it pays to look back and see where they came from, who they studied under while learning their particular craft before eventually taking hold of the reins themselves in full. It helps put the work of Hideaki Anno into better context when one [...]

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Eternal Adam, I indict you!: The Crimson Petal and the White – 2011, Marc Munden

by Allan Fish (UK 2011 236m) DVD2 (from June) The City of Dreadful Night p  David M.Thompson, Steve Lightfoot, Greg Dummett, Ed Rubin  d  Marc Munden  w  Lucinda Coxon  novel  Michel Faber  ph  Lol Crawley  ed  Luke Dunkley  m  Cristobal Tapia de Veer  art  Grant Montgomery, Ussal Smithers  cos  Annie Symons  make up  Jacqueline Fowler [...]

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They Drive by Night – 1938, Arthur Woods

by Allan Fish (UK 1938 84m) not on DVD Doing the nine o’clock walk p  Jerome Jackson  d  Arthur Woods  w  Derek Twist, Paul Gangelin  novel  James Curtis  ph  Basil Emmott  ed  Leslie Norman  m  Bretton Byrd  art  Peter Proud, Michael Relph Emlyn Williams (Shorty Matthews), Anna Konstam (Molly O’Neill), Allan Jeayes (Wally Mason), Ernest [...]

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1. Night And The City

Director: Jules Dassin Producer: Samuel G. Engel Screenwriter: Jo Esinger Cinematographer: Max Greene Music: Franz Waxman Studio: 20th Century Fox 1950 Main Acting: Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney Night and the City was filmed in London by an American director and three principle American actors. It was produced by 20th Century Fox and moved out [...]

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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British (and UK) Pop Music (part 23)

essay by Jamie Brit Pop is an era of British music that produced as many great records as any previous ‘Boom period’ (the three largest and most influential are the original Beat/Mod era often called British Invasion in the States, the original Punk and Post-Punk Wave of the late 1970′s-early 1980′s, and finally the Brit-Pop [...]

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Industrial Dilemmas: Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Red Desert”

Copyright © 2011 by James Clark Complainers tend to be a bore, and complainers about their emotional states seldom come close to the level of fascination. This is an intuition that has consigned the films of Michelangelo Antonioni’s prime to a precarious stature. Particularly as sustained by his go-to exponent of nausea, the actress, Monica [...]

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2. The Killers

Director: Robert Siodmak Producer: Mark Hellinger Screenwriters: Anthony Veiller, Richard Brooks, and John Huston Cinematographer: Elwood Bredell Music: Miklos Rozsa Studio: Universal Pictures 1946 Main Acting: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, and Edmond O’ Brien Since I already focused extensively on the opening scene of another noir on this countdown, I will keep my adoration for [...]

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3. In A Lonely Place

Director: Nicholas Ray Producer: Robert Lord Screenwriters: Edmund H. North and Andrew Solt Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey Music: George Antheil Studio: Columbia Pictures 1950 Main Acting: Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame John Donne once wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” I wonder what he would make of Nicholas Ray’s In A Lonely Place, [...]

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Evergreen – 1934, Victor Saville

by Allan Fish (UK 1934 90m) DVD2 A little springtime in your heart p  Michael Balcon  d  Victor Saville  w  Emlyn Williams, Marjorie Gaffney  play  “Ever Green” by Benn W.Levy  ph  Glen MacWilliams  ed  Ian Dalrymple, Paul Capon  md  Louis Levy  m/ly  Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Harry Woods  art  Alfred Junge, Peter Proud  ch  Buddy [...]

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4. Out Of The Past

Director: Jacques Tourneur Producer: Warren Duff Screenwriter: Daniel Mainwaring Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca Music: Roy Webb Studio: RKO Pictures 1947 Main Acting: Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, and Jane Greer

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