4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 26, 2017

It disappoints me that I was not more taken with the material than I was but despite not being wholly engaged, there are still some fascinating aspects to Panic in the Streets. Though a somewhat simple picture, it seems possible that I might just need to give it a second...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 25, 2017

As often happens in the life of a classic movie aficionado, I became acquainted Claude Jade quite by accident and it happened at a random point in her filmography. In Hitchcock’s Cold War thriller Topaz (1969) she has a small part to play but the Master of Suspense was pointed to...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 25, 2017

As often happens in the life of a classic movie aficionado, I became acquainted Claude Jade quite by accident and it happened at a random point in her filmography. In Hitchcock’s Cold War thriller Topaz (1969) she has a small part to play but the Master of Suspense was pointed to...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 23, 2017

Are you a mod or a rocker? ~ reporter Um, no, I’m a mocker ~ Ringo As a 4 or 5-year-old I didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were and no one had told me yet about Cinema Verite and what that meant. But I loved the Beatles. Also, I...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 23, 2017

Are you a mod or a rocker? ~ reporter Um, no, I’m a mocker ~ Ringo As a 4 or 5-year-old, I didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were and no one had told me yet about Cinema Verite and what that meant. But I loved the Beatles. Also, I...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 20, 2017

I despise you and I pity you. ~ Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Jordan The Bigamist is at first a delightful noir — in one aspect unassuming and yet groundbreaking when put in a broader context. Ida Lupino is not simply a good female director. She is a good director, period....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 20, 2017

I despise you and I pity you. ~ Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Jordan The Bigamist is at first a delightful noir — in one aspect unassuming and yet groundbreaking when put in a broader context. Ida Lupino is not simply a good female director. She is a good director, period....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 17, 2017

The question is, what to do with Slap Shot? It’s grungy, dirty, and foul-mouthed. Bloody and violent. Did I mention profane and boisterous? Loud and obnoxious? Yet somehow there’s still something idiosyncratically lovable about this board busting hockey film. Is it wrong to call it an a   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 17, 2017

The question is, what to do with Slap Shot? It’s grungy, dirty, and foul-mouthed. Bloody and violent. Did I mention profane and boisterous? Loud and obnoxious? Yet somehow there’s still something idiosyncratically lovable about this board busting hockey film. Is it wrong to call it an a   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 15, 2017

Soldiers returning home from war is a recurring theme in films such as The Best Years of Our Lives and Act of Violence and given the circumstances it makes sense. This was the reality. Men returning home from war as heroes. But even heroes have to re-acclimate to the world...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 15, 2017

Soldiers returning home from war is a recurring theme in films such as The Best Years of Our Lives and Act of Violence and given the circumstances it makes sense. This was the reality. Men returning home from war as heroes. But even heroes have to re-acclimate to the world...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 12, 2017

With Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon making a splash just the year before and giving a big leg up to its star Humphrey Bogart as well as its director John Huston, it’s no surprise that another such film would be in the works to capitalize on the success. This time it...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 12, 2017

With Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon making a splash just the year before and giving a big leg up to its star Humphrey Bogart as well as its director John Huston, it’s no a surprise that another such film would be in the works to capitalize on the success. This...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 9, 2017

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake found themselves partnered together on numerous occasions partially out of convenience (at 5’6 and 4’11 they were a perfect height match) but also there’s a genuine chemistry between them. And it all came into being with This Gun for Hire an economical f   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 9, 2017

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake found themselves partnered together on numerous occasions partially out of convenience (at 5’6 and 4’11 they were a perfect height match) but also there’s a genuine chemistry between them. And it all came into being with This Gun for Hire an economical f   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 6, 2017

There’s something remarkably moving about the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. I’ve only felt it a few times in my own lifetime whether it was family members recognizing names on the Vietnam Memorial tears in their eyes or walking over the sunken remains of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl H   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 6, 2017

There’s something remarkably moving about the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. I’ve only felt it a few times in my own lifetime whether it was family members recognizing names on the Vietnam Memorial tears in their eyes or walking over the sunken remains of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl H   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 3, 2017

It’s one of those anomalies of life that only a few days before I write this, the renowned Danielle Darrieux celebrated a century on this earth and I watch a film from some many years ago that showcases her budding screen presence. While so many others deteriorate with age, she...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 3, 2017

It’s one of those anomalies of life that only a few days before I write this, the renowned Danielle Darrieux celebrated a century on this earth and I watch a film from some many years ago that showcases her budding screen presence. While so many others deteriorate with age, she...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 1, 2017

The Birds is about all sort of birds. The ones we are acquainted with initially are actually a pair of humans. Lovebirds you might call them. Except they don’t know it quite yet, but the moment Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) and Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) meet in a pet shop, the...   read more