A second viewing of A SINGLE MAN (2009) made me go overboard
I was struck by my second viewing of the film to compare director Tom Ford with Orson Welles. I say this first of all because their first efforts are both very strong. Welles was famous as a very successful person within a different field (theatre and radio), just as Ford is famous in [...]
The world probably doesn’t need a new print of LE COMBAT DANS L’ÎLE (1962)
Dir. Alain Cavalier
The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA), 12/28/09, 9:30pm
A fairly mediocre French New Wave-ish film directed by a protege of Louis Malle. Cavalier was assistant director on Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows and Les Amants (not bad films to have worked on), and Malle produced this ménage à trois film. If you ask [...]
