The Frame

Slight but enjoyable Shirley MacLaine vehicle from the ’60s.

I’ve already seen The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which is the third in the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Man With No Name trilogy of spaghetti westerns of which A Fistful of Dollars is the first. I don’t like watching series out of order, but I don’t think it matters much in this case. Eastwood’s [...]

Wow. I don’t even know where to start with this one. Samuel Fuller was a B-grade director well known for his rather off-the-wall, shocking films (his most famous film is probably Shock Corridor); this is the first one of his films that I’ve seen. And it’s so incredibly strange that I loved it! It opens [...]

Criterion packages both the 1946 and the 1964 versions of The Killers together, so after I finished watching the earlier one, I popped the later one in to compare. Wow different. You can still see elements of the same story, though the whole diner scene which was taken directly from the short story has been [...]

Oh, Jean-Luc Godard. You and I have had a rather uneasy cinematic relationship, I know. I’ve considered your colleague François Truffaut to be the essential New Wave director and his masterpiece The 400 Blows to be greater than yours, Breathless. So why, after seeing Breathless multiple times, as well as your other most famous film [...]