By Craig D. Lindsey
He's speaking tonight at Merriam Theater. But the Clerks director has a couple of dicks on his mind -- and he's ready to get away from his bloggy-style of moviemaking to try something new.
Even scenes that sound great on paper—as when two private military contracting companies accidentally start a firefight at a Baghdad gas station—feel strained and uncomfortably buffonish. Everybody’s mugging when they should’ve just tried acting.
By Matt Prigge
Through the ’50s, Alfred Hitchcock was able to wed increasingly heady ideas to pure genre concerns. But with Vertigo, he went too far. The story took a back seat to the themes and the film was considered a disaster. So he made this film.
I don’t know how anyone can watch that beautiful, impossibly gifted young child performing next to the sick, depressing weirdo that he grew up to be and not feel downright heartbroken.
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