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Tag: Social History

South Solitary (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Shirley Barrett’s debut feature, 1996’s Love Serenade, won the Cannes Camera d’Or prize that year, and established her as...

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Former TV director Franklin J. Schaffner had climbed to the top of the Hollywood pyramid helming galumphing great studio...

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (Shurayukihime: Urami Renga,1974) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A cobbled-together sequel to Toshiya Fujita’s classic is hampered by a storyline that suggests mastermind Kazuo Koike’s playbook was...

Call Northside 777 (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Henry Hathaway’s follow-up to his neo-realist pulp piece Kiss of Death is somewhat superior, a key work of the...

The Bostonians (1984) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The Merchant Ivory nomenclature, spoken so lovingly in trailers in the same tone commercials use the phrase “blue ribbon...

Character (Karakter, 1997) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A Dickensian social drama with Horror film flourishes, Character won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1997, and...

Cradle Will Rock (1999) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Tim Robbins is a talented actor and an interesting director, but on Cradle Will Rock he expends a lot of...

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Sydney Pollack’s film of Horace McCoy’s novel manages to be the ultimate in both retro-Depression gothic and late-‘60s fatalism....

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast

Although it does not lack some pat, familiar refrains of both the popular theatre and filmmaking of its era,...

Go for Broke! (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Robert Pirosh, who provided the pithy screenplay for William Wellman’s mighty Battleground (1949) and had an artful way of...

Goya’s Ghosts (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Not quite as bad as some critics said, and yet also a long way from great, Milos Forman turns...

The Decline of the Western: Leone, Peckinpah, Penn, and Cimino

I wrote this essay about five years ago, having viewed several “revisionist” westerns in quick succession, including the...