Mon Oncle
Last Friday I attended, with my brother, a screening of Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958) at International House. What may appear to be an odd context to this screening, though… Read more »
Tag: 1950s
The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk’s style is unmistakable. In the last 70 some years his films have become synonymous with the America of the nuclear age. I have written before about how Sirk… Read more »
Lili
Lili is one of those anomalous films that was ostensibly made for children or at least young adults, like The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr.T (1953), during the latter days of… Read more »
Trapeze
Long before the cinema existed there was the circus, and the circus was one of the most popular entertainments in the world. So it is no surprise that the circus… Read more »
Diabolique
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Diabolique is a thriller released in 1955. That said it is almost always compared to the works of Hitchcock, with whom its history is explicitly intertwined. But upon a few… Read more »
Johnny Staccato
If you are like me and you enjoy Frank Kane’s or Howard Norman’s gumshoe novels then you’ll probably get into Johnny Staccato. Otherwise, Johnny Staccato is pretty unremarkable as a… Read more »
On Dangerous Ground
Almost all of Nicholas Ray’s films deal with a protagonist whose behavior isolates themselves within their society. Ray implements these concerns fluidly in his screen adaptation of Gerald Butler’s Mad… Read more »
