***Country: USDirector: Bob Rafelson In the fun house how do you know who’s really crazy? Bob Rafelson’s The King of Marvin Gardens is the last of seven films produced between 1968 and 1972 by BBS Films, the production company co-founded by Rafelson. These films include oddities like Rafelson’s Monkees movie Head, works of historical importance [...]
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Mr. Arkadin (1955): The 2006 Complete Version
Posted by sagolas on October 18th, 2010
***½Country: France-Spain-SwitzerlandDirector: Orson Welles “Mr. Arkadin has an insouciant air of what Welles might have done at a weekend house party if admirers asked him, Could you do a Citizen Kane again?” —David Thomson, “Have You Seen . . . ?“ Even for an Orson Welles project, Mr. Arkadin has a strange, convoluted, and sad [...]
Le Boucher (1970)
Posted by sagolas on September 13th, 2010
****Country: France-ItalyDirector: Claude Chabrol In his book “Have You Seen . . . ?” David Thomson calls Le Boucher “a picture to be seen repeatedly over the years.” In my experience, such movies tend to fall into two groups. In one group are the most complex films—Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Persona, 8½, The Discreet Charm of [...]
