From the start of his career, in the 1950s, writer-director Luis García Berlanga took aim at the strictures of Franco-era censorship with his radical black comedies. Though lesser known than his renegade compatriot Luis Buñuel, Berlanga was . . .
Read More
Related Posts:
Jacques Tourneur on Val Lewton and Cinematic Escapism Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton’s legendary partnership began in the mid-thirties at MGM under the supervision of David O. Selznick, but it wasn’t until the 1942 RKO film Cat People that their chemistry produced an original … Read More- Designing Valley of the Dolls Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, Mark Robson’s 1967 melodrama Valley of the Dolls offers a campy look at the glamour and excess of sixties showbiz. Among its many enduring pleasures is the sensationa… Read More
- Repertory Pick: Ozu in Berkeley This weekend, the Pacific Film Archive, in Berkeley, California, will screen Yasujiro Ozu’s 1958 film Equinox Flower as part of a two-month series highlighting his late-career work. With the Japanese master’s trademark empat… Read More
- Blood Simple: “Down Here, You’re on Your Own” An exhilarating blend of noir and splatter-flick tropes, the Coen brothers’ debut feature established their unique brand of cosmic fatalism.
Read More
… Read More
- Did You See This? To celebrate the beginning of autumn this week, the BFI has published a list of ten films set during the season, including Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon, Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, a… Read More
0 comments:
Post a Comment