When “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a collaboration between film director Stanley Kubrick and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark, splashed onto the screen in 1968, no one knew what to make of it. Many critics hated it. The New York Times review had very little good to say about it, complaining that it was long, [...]
This is a splendid film debut by Monty Python’s John Cleese. Peter Sellers plays Sir Guy Grand, world’s richest man, who adopts a homeless young protégé Youngman played by Ringo Starr. Sir Guy Grand is out to demonstrate that anyone will do anything for money. In this scene, he is buying a Rembrandt at Sotheby’s [...]
“Dead Ringers” is a remarkable movie by Canadian horrormeister David Cronenberg (whose most famous movies include “A History of Violence” and the remake of “The Fly”). This film doesn’t fit neatly into the horror genre as it is really more of a psychodrama. The movie is based on the true story of Stewart and Cyril [...]
“A Day at the Races” is a typical Marx Brothers romp. Groucho plays Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian who impersonates a medical doctor in order to save a sanitarium. In this scene, one of the administrators who secretly wants the sanitarium to fail, is checking on Hackenbush’s credentials by calling the Florida Medical Board. [...]
This is possibly my favorite one-minute scene in all of filmdom, and I was delighted to find it on YouTube. “Shadow of a Doubt” was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movie. It is a coming-of-age, loss-of-innocence story about a small-town girl named Charlie, who gets a visit from her Uncle Charlie, with whom she feels she has [...]
It’s so wonderful that all the best scenes out of the cinema somehow find their way onto YouTube. This scene from “Strangers on a Train” has so much going on that I barely know where to begin. On watching this again, I was struck by the recurring motif of wheels in motion. There is [...]
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