by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 6, 2019 | Alfred Hitchcock, Movies, Reviews
Here is Hitchcock’s 13th feature film as director, and by now several of his cinematic signatures are beginning to coalesce. We have the trademark cameo as he walks by the scene of the murder early in the film. And we have “the wrong man” plot,...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 4, 2019 | Movies, Reviews, Sunday Film Series
On the surface a parody of Jacques Cousteau’s undersea documentaries, but even if you were born too late to grow up on Cousteau on television, this is a brilliant masterpiece of understated droll comedy with a touch of Chaplinesque pathos. Starring Bill Murray,...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 8, 2016 | Movies, people, Reviews
The pioneers of Direct Cinema are about gone. D. A. Pennebaker hangs on at 91 years of age, looking remarkably spry. But Robert Drew, Albert Maysles, and Richard Leacock have all passed on. There was a time in the early 1960’s when these men, along...
by Dale Dalenberg | Apr 13, 2015 | Movies, Reviews
The Dalenberg Library’s 100 Film Favorites from the Lifetime List— By Dale D. Dalenberg MD Is it the greatest film of all time? Or do we only think so because it is so obtuse that you have to watch it over and over again to figure out what it all means???? You...
by Dale Dalenberg | Apr 7, 2015 | Movies, Reviews
Film #7 in the Sunday Film Series, an occasional series of important, forgotten, or neglected films. . . or maybe just films we want to talk about— Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (USA, 1927) Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in a publicity...
by Dale Dalenberg | Mar 16, 2015 | Movies, Reviews
Sunday Film Series #6: Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (France, 1953) By Dale D. Dalenberg MD I have to confess—I didn’t immediately take to Hulot when I first discovered him over 30 years ago. This was one of my beloved high school teacher Fred Hanley’s...
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