Alternative Film Guide

“Made by eggheads for eggheads . . It is, however, the handling of time which is so completely baffling. He moves from the present to the past and future and back again at a speed which would put an astronaut to shame.” An anonymous reviewer writing for the McCarthy agency of London, discussing Alain Resnais’s L’Année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad.

Dalya Alberge’s [London] Times article about the reviews for the McCarthy agency - which for decades suggested which movies should be shown to the British public - is well worth a look. The aforementioned reviewer also disses the (so-so) crime thriller Brighton Rock, Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane and, gasp, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Patricia Neal at Hud Screening

Academy Screening of Jean Renoir’s The River

Janet Gaynor Retrospective at UCLA

Brokeback Mountain Is a DVD Hit

Firewall on DVD

 

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