Monthly Archives: March 2015

“The Salvation”

Posted on March 17, 2015 by amangr

I’ve read several reviews of this new Euro- (actually Danish) Western that call for a response. One local newsprint reviewer lamented the fact that the characters were stereotypes. This might be a problem if we were watching a “straight” drama … Continue reading →

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A Stray Bit of Bad Information

Posted on March 14, 2015 by amangr

Before I had ever seen Pupi Avati’s “Zeder,” I read a précis of the film’s plot stating that the film’s hero receives as a gift an old typewriter, which had belonged to one Paolo Zeder, a mysterious scientist/mystic who had … Continue reading →

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Ecological Western?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by amangr

CAUTION: CONTAINS “SPOILERS” It never helps a film when its own director distances himself from it, so when Elia Kazan put distance between himself and the 1946 western “The Sea of Grass,” after giving audiences a Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn pairing … Continue reading →

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Homey Horrors

Posted on March 1, 2015 by amangr

CAUTION: CONTAINS “SPOILERS” A recent viewing of two British films, “The Corpse” and “Revenge,” led me to an interesting query–are these films noir mislabeled as “horror,” or are they ancestors of the current trend that situates horror not in the … Continue reading →

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“Wurdalak x 2”

Posted on March 1, 2015 by amangr

CAUTION: CONTAINS “SPOILERS” I grew up with Mario Bava’s “Black Sabbath,” an anthology film in three segments, the last of which (in the U.S. version) was a free adaptation of Alexei Tolstoy’s “The Family of a Vourdalak,” but I only … Continue reading →

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Valli amid the Longueurs

Posted on March 1, 2015 by amangr

CAUTION: CONTAINS “SPOILERS” A friend recently invited me to watch “Noi viva” (“We the Living”) the unauthorized and later banned 1942 film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel. Now I’m not much of the Ayn-ite, so if you’re looking for a … Continue reading →

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