Then Playing — The Little Hours; Passages; Where Danger Lives
Profane nuns, a complicated love triangle, and a flinty film noir. Continue reading Then Playing — The Little Hours; Passages; Where Danger Lives
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Top Fifty Films of the 50s — Number Forty
#40 — His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, 1951) There’s so much messiness to sort through with His Kind of Woman that it makes the inclusion on any sort of best list a bit of a marvel. And of course … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 50s — Number Forty
Edel, Farrow, Hitchcock, Jordan, Siegel
His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, 1951). How many other actors completely own a genre of film the way that Robert Mitchum does film noir? It’s like he was born into a delivery room filled with murky shadows and cigarette smoke, the doctor instructing the nurse to slap his bottom by growling, “Give him what’s comin’ to him, and make him sing when you do it.” He moves through this story of scheming and duplicity at a Mexican resort as if he’s walking through his own front door, tossing of aloof wisecracks with the ease of a guy who’s already … Continue reading Edel, Farrow, Hitchcock, Jordan, Siegel
Coffee for Two 