Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Top of the world

Wasn't it quite brutal. Raoul Walsh's White Heat. From 1949. James Cagney is a mean and violent son of a bitch, a frightening figure for both cops and fellow criminals. A perfect psychopath. A brute force of nature. Makes intense film noir.

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Long lost light

I expected much more of Sergio Cattellitto 's A Bookshop in Paris ( Il materiale emotivo ). It's a romance film, but its romanticis...