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Archive for October, 2007

Rambling about Bandits and chimeras

Posted in DVD, Movies on October 22nd, 2007 No Comments »

Having watch Barry Levinson’s 2001 movie Bandits once again last night, I took another look at what had written about it somewhere back in 2002 — roughly five years ago.
For some reason, I went off on a tangent about chimeras. I sort of know what I was thinking at the time but, having rewatched […]

Land of the Pharaohs: Massive exercise in dullness

Posted in DVD, Directors, Howard Hawks, Land of the Pharaohs, Movies on October 17th, 2007 No Comments »

Watching Howard Hawk’s Land of the Pharaohs (1955) is extraordinary but for all the wrong reasons. How is it Howard Hawks, director of Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, Scarface and other great movies, got involved with this turgid turkey of an epic? How did William Faulkner, author of Light in August, As I Lay Dying, […]