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Classic Film Review: Cleese shows us Classic Comedy can be “Clockwise” (1986)
A person hellbent on maintaining his dignity in the face of everything thrown at him to deny it, and failing, is the essence of comedy. So it was with Keaton, and so it is with Cleese. Somebody said that once. … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: An anti-war parable that became a landmark of Japanese cinema — “Ugetsu” (1953)
“The value of people and objects truly depends on their setting,” the potter Genjurô tells a noblewoman and patron at one point in the classic film “Ugetsu,” a Medieval fantasy based on the “Rain-Moon Tales” of 18th century writer Ueda … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock Close-ups and Cuts at their Most “Notorious”
A purloined key, handed-off and hidden, then “returned” with dire consequences, bottles of wine whose “vintage” sticker earns a lot of attention, a party’s champagne bucket, emptying steadily and suspensefully and the look of doom in a great actress’s ready-for-my-closeup … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Welles’ “Othello,” a Masterpiece in Black and White and Blackface
The lore and backstory behind Orson Welles‘ years-in-the-making production of “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” has come to overwhelm the movie itself. He was so strapped for funds, filming this in Europe as his American directing career … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film-review, micheal-macliammoir, orson-welles, othello, shakespeare, theatre, tubi, william-shakespeare
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