I just watched the recent–let’s see what they’re calling it–director’s cut. A director’s cut without director’s audio commentary. It features nine extra minutes, the most noticeable being a few shots where you see tit. Before DVDs, directors’ cuts meant something (even if they weren’t exactly the director’s cut). Blade Runner and Touch of Evil meant […]
Entries from December 2005
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000, Dominic Sena), the director’s cut
December 6th, 2005 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloAfter the Thin Man (1936, W.S. Van Dyke)
December 3rd, 2005 No Comments
The last time I had a Thin Man marathon–which must have been five years ago, maybe more (I had the LaserDisc set, so I’m trying to remember when I started concentrating more on DVD), I thought After the Thin Man, the second film in the series, was disappointing. Now I’m not having a marathon, just […]
How to Steal a Million (1966, William Wyler)
December 3rd, 2005 No Comments
I think I might hate ‘cute.’ Or at least the pseudo-realistic ‘cute’ that permeated film through the 1950s and 1960s, when the films became so much about enjoying the actors’ charisma, there was no sense of any reality to the films’ situations and conflicts. In that way, How to Steal a Million is an interesting […]
