Category Archives: Film

Delbert Mann directed best picture winner Marty in 1955, a movie about the loneliness of one man. It was a small film that became a sensation, it was unlike most Hollywood films of its day by trying to show “real life” with actors who looked like “real people”. Mann returns to this theme with 1958’sContinue reading “Separate Tables (1958)”

Dracula (1931) Cliché and convention have to begin somewhere. In 1931 Todd Browning’s film version of Dracula helped define what the horror genre would be like for the new age of talking film. Bram Stokers novel had already seen life as both a stage play and within silent film versions of the now classic story.Continue reading “Dracula”

Imitation is the highest form of flattery and The Seven Ups is trying its hardest to flatter The French Connection. Made 2 years after that best picture Oscar winner the producer of that film is now the director of this one and the supporting actors are now the stars. Gritty New York City again servesContinue reading “The Seven Ups (1973)”

Rome, Open City (1945) 1945, the war has just ended and Roberto Rossellini decided to take everyone right back into it. How raw must the audiences emotions have been watching on the big screen what they just endured for years in their real lives? There are no punches pulled, nothing has been glossed over, thereContinue reading “Rome, Open City”