What do the movie Casablanca and the cartoon character Pepe Le Pew have in common? No, this is not a trick question. They were both influenced by Algiers. Pepe Le Pew is the amorous deep voiced skunk who is based on Pepe Le Moko, played by Charles Boyer in Algiers. The dark, smoldering Gallic lover is certainly more suave than the skunk.
See full postA Farewell to Arms could be a metaphor for its times. A story of World War I, the hero Lieutenant Frederic Henry, has to come to terms with the war he blithely entered. The country whose armed forces he is part of, Italy, was also blithe about going to war. Both pay for it in different ways.
See full postThe thing I really liked about Charade is how the film is a little of everything: thriller, mystery, romance, comedy. Grant and Hepburn are strangely composed considering that the threat of murder is all around them. They find time for comedy, romance, and dinner on a riverboat. The least you can do is find time for Charade.
See full postThe movie opens with three threads, introducing the three protagonists respectively, which lead to their encounters and then follows them through their relations gradually taking shape through these encounters. The encounter of the three turns out to be a life-changing experience, as each is forced - in a friendly way - to confront his/her own secret.
See full postCapturing the power of love is surely one of film’s most simple and yet most difficult callings. Even after years of attempts, many romances fall short of reaching any real truth and instead aren’t much more than a cinematic pillow for tired minds. Roberto Benigni’s The Tiger and The Snow strives to be more. The [...]
See full postTime has to do with bodily alteration, yet its main concern is not the phenomenology of aesthetic difference as is the case with The Shape of Things. Time has to do with identity crisis following from bodily alteration, yet not in the generic tradition of body-swap films such as 18 Again or Face/Off.
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