Directed by David Fincher. Screenplay by Jack Fincher (yes, the above-mentioned David’s father). My earliest thought on this film is that the background music is too constant – and the sound of the dialogue not nearly crisp enough, over this – for all of the words being said to be properly absorbed & understood. I […]
Directed by Delmer Daves. Screenplay by Charles Kenyon & Delmer Daves, based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood. Sherwood’s play ran on Broadway for almost 200 performances in 1935. Both Leslie Howard & Humphrey Bogart were part of the opening cast, and famously, when the film version was put into production, the much-in-demand Howard […]
Directed by Lasse Hallström. Screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, from the novel by Joanne Harris. (This is a re-watch.) I love this movie, and think it’s disappointing & a shame that it doesn’t get talked about much these days. To me, it’s no great mystery as to why it hasn’t maintained a spot on film […]
Directed by Howard Zieff. Written by Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, & Harvey Miller. ”When Judy Benjamin was eight years old, she confessed her life’s desire to her best friend. ‘All I want,’ Judy whispered, ‘is a big house…nice clothes, two closets, a live-in maid, and a professional man for a husband.’ Today, all of Judy’s […]
Directed by John Francis Dillon. Screenplay by Niven Busch & Rian James, from the story “Cut Rate” by Busch & Samuel G. Engel. Bette Davis is Norma Nelson, a bored ‘n’ sassy gal who spends her days working the front counter at her fiancé Jimmy (Morrell, played by Charles Farrell)’s drugstore. In what is bound […]
Directed by Stuart Heisler. Written by Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel “Useless Cowboy” by Alan Le May. Once upon a time, some ordinary, ho-hum cowhands are leisurely riding along to their next cow-rustling destination, when they find themselves approaching a town called Payneville. This, we discover, was not where these gentlemen intended to go […]
Written & directed by the Wachowski Brothers (now Lilly & Lana Wachowski). This is a re-watch. As anyone who scans down the list of movies covered in posts on this blog can likely tell – I am not a big fan of Sci-Fi films, and watch them pretty infrequently. (I am not easily convinced by […]
Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Screenplay by Robert Presnell Sr, based on a play by David Boehm. This is a re-watch (though I’ve only seen it once, and I don’t remember it all that well…that is – except for the fantastically badass, champion of a line: “Smash or be smashed.” For a time, I wanted […]
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