by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 19, 2019 | Dalenberg Library Top 100 Films, Reviews
I first encountered Ken Russell’s dizzyingly shocking The Devils on the big screen in college. The University of Arizona had several outlets for the education of a young cinephile in those days (1979-1983), but the one I most regularly attended (about three...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 17, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Two years after A Trip to the Moon, Georges Melies continued his tongue-in-cheek riff on Jules Verne with The Impossible Voyage. A group of inept geographers take off on a comic voyage of exploration. They manage to crash or destroy every conveyance that they employ...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 13, 2019 | 100 Years Ago, Reviews
The 1920 publicity photo of De Mille that graces the cover of this otherwise unadorned DVD release of Male and Female shows the director as a confident young man in his late 30’s, already one of the legends who created Hollywood (DeMille’s first...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 12, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
The Great Train Robbery always takes me back to Disneyland, which is where I first watched it in the calm darkness you would step into off the hustle and bustle of Main Street, playing in an endless loop all day, available to be viewed over and over again before you...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 8, 2019 | Criterion Eclipse Series, Reviews
Ingmar Bergman’s first stamp on the film world was his brooding screenplay for Torment (1944) about a high school senior trying (and ultimately failing) to finish his finals and graduate despite a sadistic Latin teacher and a relationship with a troubled...
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