FILM FILINGS 8-18-23
In this edition of Film Filings: Oppenheimer, Unforgiven, Lawrence of Arabia, Night of the Hunter, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Kes.
FILM FILINGS 3.26.23
This edition of Film Filings is four film reviews, and a special invitation to those cinephiles out there who have seen--or wish to see--the astounding silent film masterpiece 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'. We are looking for thoughtful and well-written short reviews to publish this coming May. See 'Film Filings' article for full details.
VAL LEWTON AT R.K.O.
“The Bagheeta [...] will change at his coming into a beautiful woman and attempt to coerce him into an embrace. If she is successful, if the youth kisses her, his life is forfeited. Changing again into a black leopard, the Bagheeta will tear him limb from limb.”
– From ‘The Bagheeta,' a story by Val Lewton published in Weird Tales, July 1930.
Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar
Roger Ebert called the film Bresson’s “finest prayer." Other Bresson films have been more dramatic, more exciting and more viscerally involving—for me, personally, A Man Escaped—but none more spiritually. Balthazar stands apart in its moral and spiritual rigor.
Ranking All 56 Films of Alfred Hitchcock…from worst to best.
Ready for some delicious film-ranking controversy? Having this many Alfred Hitchcock films to work with is a real pleasure. There are 56 films total, with 3 require pairing up (you’ll see why), so there are 53 ranked slots. I’ve come up with 7 Tiers—Enthusiastic, Great, Overrated, Underrated, Worthwhile, Stepping Stones, and Sad and Awful.