Tag: Harold S. Bucquet

Movie Diary 2023 (7/1-7/5): Please Stop Making Me Watch Clips from High Society

July 1st Pompeii (2014, dir. Paul W.S. Anderson) Soylent Green (1973, dir. Richard Fleischer) The place I want to start with Pompeii is its budget, because it’s a blockbuster/spectacle movie and, cynically, I have a hard time starting anywhere else with those. The numbers vary, but let’s call it $90 million in 2014 dollars. My… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (7/1-7/5): Please Stop Making Me Watch Clips from High Society

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Movie Diary 2023 (6/1-6/30): Great Caesar’s Ghost I Still Have a Lot of These Left

Okay, two sentences each, let’s make this happen, ready, hike. Force of Evil, 1948, dir. Abraham Polonsky / America’s commitment to leftist filmmaking runs shallower than you’d find in many other countries, but that’s not Polonsky’s fault. His first feature (made not long before he was blacklisted) puts everyman John Garfield in a decent suit,… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (6/1-6/30): Great Caesar’s Ghost I Still Have a Lot of These Left

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