Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
The early sound period has always fascinated me, especially in how studios suddenly needed to find ways to release films in different markets with different languages when changing out intertitles had been enough since the advent of the medium. One thing they did was simply film multiple versions of a movie. This is probably the… Continue reading Drácula
#28 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Courtroom dramas have limited appeal to me. They largely feel fake with artificial drama that would never actually happen in the setting. Sometimes a film can get past that, as in Fury, and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt actually ends up getting close. The drama isn't supposed to… Continue reading Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
#27 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. There's something about this film that doesn't quite connect. This tale of murder, fear, and guilt seems to have all the right pieces, but by the end they don't really come together the way that they should. The focus on the female protagonist feels incomplete, like it… Continue reading The Blue Gardenia
#29 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. I'm not quite sure that Fritz Lang understood the spy genre. The best spy movie he ever made was the first third of Woman in the Moon, and he'd made several other outright spy adventures that never really grabbed my interest like the pair of films in… Continue reading Cloak and Dagger
This is one of those movies that I want to like more than I actually do. It addresses some of my issues with a movie monster, has some great individual sequences, but I don't think it actually comes together all that well. It's got a couple of ideas that it introduces and never explores with… Continue reading Prey
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