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brava kim for putting this so beautifully into words.
Commented May 27, 2012 on The Wistful World of Wes Anderson at Sunset Gun
The Wistful World of Wes Anderson
Recently, The Guardian's film blog ran a small piece highlighting the trailer for Wes Anderson's upcoming -- and for Anderson fans, greatly anticipated -- Moonrise Kingdom (which I haven't seen but will review soon). With perhaps a mixture of love and mockery, the writer checked off the usual ...
I've always loved this demented movie too. Violet and Sebastian, Sebastian and Violet!
Commented May 22, 2012 on Suddenly, It's Mother's Day at Sunset Gun
Suddenly, It's Mother's Day
Suddenly, Last Summer. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 1959. Jesus, Joseph and especially Mary I love this movie... Mommy? Oh my... Katharine Hepburn as Violet Venable. Hepburn is at her most deliciously vicious here, playing a New Orleans widow unnaturally obsessed with her poet son Sebastian, who di...
So so great. And true you point out this whole cinematic category of alluring and menacing father/stepfather/uncles. Makes me think of Hitchcock too, like Shadow of a Doubt (Joseph Cotten incarnates this anti Atticus thing in dazzling style doesnt' he?) and even Rebecca, cause Maxim's a little like that. And that cad Zachary Scott in Mildred Pierce. Wow.
Commented Oct 14, 2009 on Psycho Stepfather Supreme at Sunset Gun
Psycho Stepfather Supreme
A re-do of The Stepfather? It only led me to my archive of demented dads, a movie (and real life) character I'm fascinated by. From the anti-Atticus Finch figures of Bigger than Life to Lord Love a Duck to Paper Moon, varied degrees of problematic parenting are always interesting. But for tho...
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