Director Robert Wiene made 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' four years earlier, and it's the better and more influential film, but 'The Hands of Orlac' is more structured as a story. (It's been remade several times since.) A concert pianist loses his hands in an accident, so he enlist...
Director Robert Wiene made 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' four years earlier, and it's the better and more influential film, but 'The Hands of Orlac' is more structured as a story. (It's been remade several times since.) A concert pianist loses his hands in an accident, so he enlist...
In happier movie times,The Score, di-rected by Frank Oz, would have been triumphally advertised as the first film to pair Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. In even happier times, that pairing might actually have amounted to something. Instead, what we have here is an okay caper movie wi...
movie are so “understanding” they’re almost comical. Their Job-like patience is supposed to be a testament to the enduring worth of women. The film is set in the nineties, but Khouri frequently flashes back to the sixties and late thirties. This is meant to give resonance to the high ...
(Bruce McGill), at Savannah’s Krewe Island golf resort, which was built in prosperous times by Adele’s father and, in the wake of the Great Depression, became his ruination. Adele, with her eyelash-batting wiles, pushes the deal through. Like Junuh, she is looking for redemption, too...
(In the very next scene, Hussein commits murder and the film comes full circle.) If anything, our sympathies move away from Hussein in times like these: The jeweler’s killing, instead of being an explosion instigated by poverty and woe, makes us side with the old man, just as we feel...