It’s a French remake of Assault on Precinct 13, but with a healthy mix of disaster movie sentimentality (just as visible in, say, Die Hard, as in The Towering Inferno). That sentimentality isn’t bad, it’s a reward. You watch this incredibly manipulative film and then, in the end, you get some pretty music and some […]
Entries Tagged as 'Pathé'
The Nest (2002, Florent Emilio Siri)
April 2nd, 2007 No Comments
The Freshman (1925, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
May 23rd, 2006 No Comments
The Freshman has one of the most peculiar approaches to storytelling I’ve seen. It has very little establishing exposition–a few lines on a title card about maybe four of those exposition title cards throughout–and its scenes are gag-centered and the film is these gags strung together. Maybe the approach isn’t so peculiar (arguably, it’s the […]
Safety Last! (1923, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
August 6th, 2005 No Comments
Film used to be a visual medium. It’s an audio/visual now and getting more and more audio–Dolby Digital and DTS has convinced folks they need five speakers plus the discreet (while Woody Allen still shoots mono). Film has become stage-less theater (without the pretension of theater), but it wasn’t always that way….
I’ve never seen a […]
