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1956

★★★★ Liked Watched 16 Apr 2025

Screened 4/16/25 in Cinema One at the glorious Carolina Theatre, this noir is remarkable for cruelty of its protagonist, whose greed would be played up more obviously by a lesser actor. Robert Wagner situate's Bud Corliss's emptiness exactly where it belongs, squarely between sociopathy and envy -- the class cues are everywhere, most notably in Corliss reading his mother the riot act for wearing the wrong blouse to his engagement party. The tension of the film's first half is incredibly high; the second act is less nervous, but impeccably sketched.

2025

★½ Watched 05 Apr 2025

Well, at least Mark Mothersbaugh got a paycheck out of it.

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1998

★★ Watched 15 Jan 2025

My man Rob says over on Facebook, and I quote, "Having quality horror films regularly hit theatres makes me happy we're no longer in the times where the only horror in theatres was this kinda slop" alongside an image of this poster. "I'm goin in," I say, and so kick off my movie-watching of 2025 with a true stinker. 1998 -- does anybody say "Man, I wish times were more like they were in 1998?" Of course they do, and…

1963

★★★★★ Liked 1

Saw this movie on the big screen on my 58th birthday -- a very deep movie, slow and careful and lush and un-obvious -- this is catnip to me. Several intersecting storylines -- a romance; a man growing older and perceiving the general falseness of the age; the changing of the times in Italy during the time of Garibaldi. The sets -- the Italian countryside, an old half-abandoned palace, another more lived-in palace in Sicily -- are breathtaking, Alain Delon is wonderful, Claudia Cardinale is electric, and Burt Lancaster gives a nuanced performance of great depth and power. Stunning in every way.

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