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Author: Jeremy Carr

Posted onNovember 1, 2018July 25, 2020

A Dazzling Realisation of its Animated Source. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer

In 1999, when writer-director siblings Lana and Lilly Wachowski released their sophomore feature, The Matrix, it was more than a mere movie. The film was...

Posted onMay 4, 2018July 25, 2020

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...

Posted onFebruary 24, 2018July 25, 2020

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...

Posted onJanuary 2, 2018July 25, 2020

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...

Posted onNovember 21, 2017July 25, 2020

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...

Posted onOctober 8, 2017July 25, 2020

‘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...

Posted onSeptember 2, 2017July 25, 2020

‘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),...

Posted onAugust 4, 2017December 6, 2020

Another Look: Jeremy Carr on Robert Altman’s ‘Popeye’

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...

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