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4 days ago · The Curse. by Pauline Kael. Carrie is a terrifyingly lyrical thriller. The director, Brian De Palma, has mastered a teasing style—a perverse mixture of comedy and horror and tension, like that of Hitchcock or Polanski, but with a lulling sensuousness. He builds our apprehensions languorously, softening us for the kill.
5 days ago · Pauline Kael’s review of The Earrings of Madame de… praises Max Ophuls’s lush, romantic cinematic style, contrasting it with the austere, almost mathematical prose of Louise de Vilmorin’s novella. Ophuls’s fluid camera work and seamless transitions, such as the continuous movement from ball to ball, create a hypnotic and seductive ...
3 days ago · Furiosa is not only a cornucopia of myths and archetypes but also an incredible hybrid of genres: part coming-of-age novel, part action movie, part dystopian-post-apocalyptic film, part revenge movie, part neo-baroque road movie, and part Antipodean western, with roaring motorcycles instead of mustangs and ponies of the Old West. The final ...
3 days ago · Pauline Kael was critical of the film overall as too "mechanical", but praised Weaver's physical presence and performance, writing that, without her, Aliens was a subpar B picture. [128] Most of the cast was also praised, particularly Biehn, Goldstein, Henriksen, Henn and Reiser [118] [120] [124] but Benson noted that less time was spent ...
1 day ago · Image: A24/Everett Collection. The quick summary: I Saw the TV Glow follows decades in the life of Owen (Ian Foreman as a young teenager, Justice Smith thereafter), a shy, deeply awkward, lonely ...
5 days ago · This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. Pauline Kael (1919 – 2001) American film critic.
4 days ago · Budget. US$ 6 million [9] Box office. US$6.7 million [8] Fanny and Alexander ( Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, [a] Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the children's ...
