Movies That Deserve Another Look: Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Most Beautiful’
It’s certainly not the most characteristic film from Akira Kurosawa, nor is it by far his best. It is, however, one of the more intriguing...
Author: Jeremy Carr
Sun, Scandal and Jean Seberg. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at Otto Preminger’s Lavish ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
It’s difficult to assess Otto Preminger’s 1958 Technicolor-CinemaScope production, Bonjour Tristesse. It may be even more difficult to appreciate it. Yet there it is, lingering...
Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Passenger’ is a Ride Worth Taking. Jeremy Carr Gives it Another Look
It doesn’t take long. As soon as The Passenger begins, Jack Nicholson’s errant journalist, David Locke, appears exhausted and out of sorts. Assigned to cover...
Love and Loss in War-torn Russia. Grigori Chukhrai’s ‘Ballad of a Soldier’ is a Soviet Masterwork.
It begins with the evocative, ethereal depiction of a mother, standing solemnly in a billowing field, looking on, despondent. Like the visually arresting Soviet masterworks...
‘Two Rode Together’ is a Western Worth Searching For. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at John Ford’s Neglected Classic
Marshal Guthrie McCabe, played by a languid, 53-year-old James Stewart, is introduced with his feet up, rocking back in a chair outside a saloon. It’s...
‘Donkey Skin’ Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at Jacques Demy’s Gorgeous Fairytale
If a radiant detour from reality contributed to the appeal of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967),...
Another Look: Jeremy Carr on Robert Altman’s ‘Popeye’
It may be the most underrated film ever made. Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980) was a box office bust and was widely panned upon release. Even...