La vida alegre |
Jean Renoir, que sólo hacía diez años dirigía la poética The Southerner, parece moverse con alguna comodidad en French Cancan (1954), colorista y musical comedia que demuestra crudamente su versatili...
Posted by Christian Doig on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:43:00 PST |
Apuntes sobre James Dean en el paraíso |
Cuando Elia Kazan dirigió a Jimmy Dean en su primer papel protagónico, no tuvo que hacer mucho más que elegirlo. A diferencia de "Rebel Without a Cause", que es de manera esencial una historia adaptad...
Posted by Christian Doig on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:21:00 PST |
Looking for Richard |
Hay un momento en la cinta dirigida por Tony Richardson en el que Jimmy, acompañado por Helena, está sentado en la butaca de un cine ante una película que muestra acciones del ejército ...
Posted by Christian Doig on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:04:00 PST |
Blackboard Jungle |
Not to say that Lee Marvin can't hold a candle to Vic Morrow, but truth is that, mean as Marvin's boiling coffee maneuvers were in his breakthrough role in The Big Heat (1953), poor good old Glenn F...
Posted by Christian Doig on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:41:00 PST |
Femininity and masculinity in the roles of Marlon Brando |
Like a Freudian Picasso who could use his own body as a canvas in which the strokes would be only red and green colors, the Brando that swaggers in A Streetcar Named Desire is not just the Michel...
Posted by Christian Doig on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:28:00 PST |
Yes, Heathcliff is a vampire |
I wasn't going to post a new entry until next year (just around the corner, anyway), but here I am, after facing yet another encounter of the despicable kind with a shallow reader. Her name was Cathy ...
Posted by Christian Doig on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:43:00 PST |
Blondes |
In 1954, the master Elia Kazan discovered theater and television actress Eva Marie Saint to the world. A far cry from either the luscious Marilyn type or the icy Hitchcockian one, Saint co-starr...
Posted by Christian Doig on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:12:00 PST |
"What is truth?" |
Pilate's famous response to Jesus retains all of its nihilistic power of suggestion. The world has not changed much since the Son of God said to the Roman governor: "Everyone on the sid...
Posted by Christian Doig on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:25:00 PST |
A little tribute to Robert Altman |
The late prolific director's ironic style in such now-classic films like M*A*S*H, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Thieves Like Us, along with his flair for ensemble acting, made him a real unique c...
Posted by Christian Doig on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:16:00 PST |
