by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 25, 2020 | Amazing Discoveries, Reviews
This is one of those films that starts as one thing and then morphs into something completely different. As the layers of the onion are stripped away one by one, you end up somewhere that you had no idea you were heading for when you started out. I think of Robert...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 6, 2020 | Reviews
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard) hit their stride in their third short feature for Columbia Pictures, Men in Black. The title is a play on “men in white,” referring to hospital staff doctors in white coats. The Stooges play...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 30, 2019 | Reviews
In his book The Great Movies (2002), Roger Ebert speaks disparagingly of those who follow the conventional wisdom that Fellini was better in his early, neo-realist films than in his later visions of personal fantasy and excess. Ebert flat out writes “This...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 24, 2019 | Reviews
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are kindred cinematic spirits. They both had their directorial debuts in 1992. Rodriguez made one of the 3 or 4 most celebrated independent films of all times with El Mariachi, which produced the miracle of $2 million from a...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 15, 2019 | Reviews, Silents
Two orphan girls are sent to live with their uncle in the wild West. They bring along two puppies in a picnic basket as companions. When the puppies run off, they are picked up by Native Americans (depicted as broad stereotypes with Griffith’s usual ham-handed...
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...
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