Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#25 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Fritz Lang was brought in late to this project after it had languished for a few years for a few reasons, invited to the project by his female star of his last couple of movies, Sylvia Sidney. I wonder if he had had more time with the… Continue reading You and Me
#26 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. It seems as though when Fritz Lang fled Germany to France he ended up in a situation where his producer, Erich Pommer, started up a new production company with two films and two directors. There was this, and there was Max Ophuls' A Man Has Been Stolen.… Continue reading Liliom
#25 in my ranking of Billy Wilder's filmography. This bothered absolutely no one but me, but back when I did the run through of Billy Wilder's movies I missed his first film, Mauvaise Graine, also known as Bad Seed. It's a minor work, made in the brief period he lived in France after he fled… Continue reading Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed)
#14 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. Wes Craven was no good at directing comedy, and the combination of simply capturing some of the earliest excesses of Eddie Murphy's comedic stylings along with the super-generic vampire terror end up clashing anyway in Vampire in Brooklyn to the point where even if you find the… Continue reading Vampire in Brooklyn
#16 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. Looking at the IMDb rating of The People Under the Stairs, it seems like this is close to a fan favorite. It's one of his highest rated films (only at a 6.4, mind you), but I was simply bored silly by this attempt at the variation of… Continue reading The People Under the Stairs
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