Vishniac (video review)
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Tag: movies
Eiffel (2022)
I doubt whether there is one single monument that can represent the culture of one city as The Eiffel Tower. It is as much a part of the city of Paris as baguettes, bicycles and bal musette music. It is even integral to one of the famous of movie clichés, that it can be seen […]
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Lord knows I’ve seen enough gut-bucket slasher movies to know that the promise of “The Final Chapter” is only a piecrust promise, easily made and then easily broken. It’s about as reliable as “You can trust us” or “No new taxes.” But as gimmicks go, it is a clever one. You get audiences in the […]
The Stone Boy
I have been to funerals that bring out bottled up emotions and old family grudges much like the ones in The Stone Boy. Tragedy somehow brings those feelings to the surface and the time comes, ready or not, to release them on those to whom we have coveted blame. What is unique in the Hillerman […]
Magic (1978)
There must have been, I can imagine, a great temptation to turn a movie like Magic into a freak show, an exercise in exploitation that is free of restraint. God forbid, perhaps even a movie that respects the intelligence of the audience. This is, after all, the story of a ventriloquist being controlled by his […]
Caravans (1978)
Caravans is the kind of movie made by, and for, people who constantly say “Why don’t they make movies like that anymore,” and then when you see them you realize why. As throwbacks go, it seems like a noble effort but how soon we forget that certain ideas, certain styles, certain ways of making things […]
Comes a Horseman (1978)
A good follow-up is hard to come by, and that’s what happened with Alan Pakula who followed his great 1976 Watergate thriller All the President’s Men, with a dour, unsatisfying and oddly-titled western drama Comes a Horseman that has all the pieces for a great movie, but none of the energy or investment that we […]
Halloween (1978)
I was about 9 years-old when I saw Halloween for the first time, and if it is true that the movies that you are exposed to as a child mean more to you later on, then this may have had the longest-lasting psychological impact on me. To this day, the mental image of Michael Myers […]
The Late Great Planet Earth (1978)
Well, that’s it!We’re doomed!Get yourself a shovel, son.It’s about to get deep! According to this movie, the Bible says that the human race is headed on a collision course of earthquakes, famine, disease, volcanic eruptions, holocausts, African Killer Bees, hellfire and brimstone, and it’s all coming soon – so brace yourself, buster. The clock is […]
