Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Interiors written and directed by Woody Allen (1979)
This was Woody Allen's first serious film which he modeled after Ingmar Bergman's work. This film focuses on the throes of a family of three young women and their struggle with their mentally ill mother. Geraldine Paige plays Eve, the mother of the three women and EG Marshall plays her husband...
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Sunday, June 27, 2004
LA Confidential Part VI (Conlusion)
John also knows he will have a devil of a time trying to uncover Matt's murders by himself. When Ed Exley asks John's help in investigating the Nite Owl murders, that impresses John because Ed has already won the highest honors for solving this case. In return, John asks Ed's help in solving Matt's...
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Saturday, June 26, 2004
LA Confidential Part V
Sgt. John Vincennes is the most complex of our three detectives and it seems noteworthy that director Curtis Hanson chose to cast the most experienced actor to play this role, the shortest yet the most nuanced of the three main roles. When Ed Exler explains to Vincennes why he became a cop, he then...
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Friday, June 25, 2004
LA Confidential Part IV
But Bud is actually a likeable lug with an endearing propensity for protecting battered women: he loves to beat up the men who batter them. But he also harbors a sense of honor. He only likes to beat up men in a fair fight. Thus, he does not relish beating up sitting ducks at Dudley's bidding. Like...
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
LA Confidential: Part III
Instead, the politician's cold blood runs through Exley's veins. He has the ability to decipher the poliical advantage of every situation and an uncanny ability to land on his feet so he rises in that manner. Also he has thick skin and does not fear the scorn or hatred of his fellow detectives, a...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
LA Confidential part II
The film opens with the photographed Christmas Eve arrest of a young semi-naked couple, a man and a woman. At first, I thought they were being arrested for having sex. The viewer soon discovers however that Det. Sgt John Vincennes has engineered this marijuanna bust of the young actor Matt Reynolds...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The Theme of Redemption in LA Confidential
If one word can sum up the plight of the three protagonists in Curtis Hanson's LA Confidential, Det. Lt. Edmond Exley, (Guy Pearce) Det. Sgt. John Vincennes, (Kevin Spacey) and Det. Wendell White, (Russell Crowe) that word is redemption. This trio of police detectives each decides to abandon his...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2004
Celebrity A film written and directted by Woody Allen
Lee Simon (Kenneth Brannagh) should have the world on a string. A youthful looking 40 year old writer, he has had two novels published and is married to Robin (Judy Davis)a sensitive teacher of Chaucer at a NYC university. He also has steady work as a magazine writer who inter-views famous actors...
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