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On not one, but two separate occasions, I have read or heard the great Orson Welles say that Buster Keaton’s The General was possibly both the greatest movie ever made and his favorite film. Once in the book My Lunches with Orson and another in footage from an old movie TV show where Orson was … Continue reading Here’s Lookin’ at You: The General
Originally written for scenome.com Heavy is the heart that ages prematurely. If that’s not the message of the 1987 French classic Au Revoir Les Enfants, then it’s certainly the tone. Writer-director Louis Malle learned this the hard way after, while attending boarding school, he saw three of his schoolmates and his teacher taken away to concentration … Continue reading Here’s Lookin at You: Au Revoir Les Enfants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2hDKOhS7KM Every great genre has a beginning. Horror movies can be traced back to the Germans, and comedies back to Ronald Regan. But the gangster drama can be traced all the way back to "The Public Enemy", the movie that was Goodfellas before Martin Scorsese was chewing on the pacifier that gave him a super … Continue reading Here’s Lookin at You: The Public Enemy
