It seems they destroy people by granting their dearest wishes, as has been the way of the devil since God created the world.
A lyrical but unsatisfying adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel
Hitchcock once remarked that “television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
The psychology of Alfred Hitchcock « The Neurophilosopher’s weblog
Having reviewed a large number of Hitchcock films, I thought my gentle readers might enjoy this analysis of the director’s films from another perspective.
You know, there’s one thing about Americans. We’re not cut out to be occupiers. We’re new at it and we’re not very good at it.
Stanley Kramer’s second courtroom drama starring Spencer Tracy in as many years is mostly an actor’s tour de force, but surprisingly not for the film’s nominal stars, Tracy and Burt Lancaster. Both of these veterans step back and let a handful of others take center screen. The talent pool is so deep in this film that the fifth-billed actor, Maximilian Schell, took home a Best Actor Oscar, the deepest that award has gone into a film’s “bench.”
The film is a heavily fictionalized version of the actual Judges Trial during the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. (more…)
Of the four aircraft hijacked that day, United 93 was the only one that did not reach its target. It crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03am. No one survived.
Despite the highly speculative nature of the scenes set aboard the ill-fated flight, nothing about Paul Greengrass’s United 93 rings false. The heroics of the titular plane’s doomed passengers are not hyped-up or Rambo-ized, but carry a sufficiently believable air of fear and desperation to let you believe that, if it didn’t happen exactly this way, the real events were not far off.
We’re gonna keep fighting. Is that clear? We’re gonna attack all night. We’re gonna attack the next morning. If we’re not victorious, let no man come back alive.
Part of Carnival of Cinema, Episode II.
Patton is a bigger-than-life film about a bigger-than-life figure and it will be remembered for a bigger than life gesture by its star when George C. Scott refused to accept a Best Actor Oscar for his performance. Scott didn’t believe he deserved this award. The rest of the civilized world, with good reason, begged to differ.
