Category Archives: Classics
BLADE RUNNER Review Pt.3 – Is Harrison Ford’s Deckard a Replicant?
Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner BLADE RUNNER Review: Part II Now, fans of the film (and many of them border on fetishism) insist the "Final Cut" is better because it implies Deckard is a Replicant. Film critic James Berardinelli concurs: While the director’s cut removes the unfortunate voice-over from the original and eliminates the sappy happy ending, it also raises a question that [...]
THE MERRY WIDOW Review – Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier Ernst Lubitsch
THE MERRY WIDOW (1934) Direction: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway Screenplay: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; from Franz Lehár’s operetta Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, The Merry Widow The Merry Widow is neither one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most discussed nor best-liked films. Film critics and historians generally tend to [...]
A TALE OF TWO CITIES Review – Ronald Colman Jack Conway
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935) Direction: Jack Conway Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods, Lucille La Verne, Henry B. Walthall, H. B. Warner, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, Isabel Jewell, Tully Marshall, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Warwick Screenplay: W. P. Lipscomb and S. N. Behrman; from Charles Dickens’ novel Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jack Conway’s A [...]
CASABLANCA Review Pt.2 – Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart in Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca CASABLANCA Review Part I Once again, this is not to say that the Casablanca screenplay — credited to Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch — lacks charm; the comic scenes in the film, such as those involving the pickpocket, are good, but compare them with the deeper and blacker humor [...]