1938
Drake2020-10-12T20:13:23+00:00best film: Bringing Up Baby from Howard Hawks. Hepburn, Grant and Hawks all had a strong resume leading up to this film in the 1930’s but it wasn’t until Bringing Up Baby that they solidified
Walking and Talking – 1996 Holofcener
Drake2020-10-10T12:27:32+00:00The debut film from Woody Allen acolyte Nicole Holofcener The Miramax logo, Billy Bragg on the film score, Liz Phair on the soundtrack--- yes- this is a 1990’s indie movie gabbing in a video rental
Nothing Sacred – 1937 Wellman
Drake2020-10-10T12:57:00+00:00William Wellman may have directed but it is also a David O. Selznick picture (the reason it is in color) and a Ben Hecht screenplay (wrote Notorious and about 100 other titles either credited or
Bombshell – 1933 Fleming
Drake2020-10-09T19:51:26+00:00A fast-paced raucous comedy that would fit well in in any study of screwball comedy (we’re at the very origins of it here in 1933 as this is the year before It Happened One Night
The Tenant – 1976 Polanski
Drake2020-10-09T19:10:59+00:00A gigantic achievement, the final chapter of Polanski’s unofficial urban paranoia set of films best known as the apartment trilogy with Repulsion (1965), Rosemary’s Baby (1968)—and I’m not sure all three aren’t masterpieces If Polanski
Cairo Station – 1958 Chahine
Drake2020-10-08T15:12:38+00:00A superb film from Egyptian director Youssef Chahine—fast-paced, engaging, and turns into a wonderful thriller with an edge in the final act It is edited like a Capra’s It Happened One Night (we have a
No End – 1985 Kieslowski
Drake2020-10-05T13:35:49+00:00Kieslowski’s fourth feature (made after but released third ahead of Blind Chance)- and four for four in the archives. This is an important first collaboration with co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz who would go on to work
Les Misérables – 2019 Ly
Drake2020-10-05T13:15:01+00:00Not a direct adaptation of Hugo’s novel—a contemporary film that is certainly inspired by it- with the line “There are no bad plants or bad men; there are only bad cultivators” used in the finale The debut of Ladj Ly
The Body Snatcher – 1945 Wise
Drake2020-10-03T13:27:17+00:00The first of three Val Lewton and Boris Karloff collaborations in 1945 and 1946—the other two were directed by Mark Robson – Isle of the Dead and Bedlam.--- part of Lewton’s impressive run as producer