The Forgotten: CSI Roma
David CairnsBased on its title, and a one-line synopsis in Halliwell's Film Guide, this movie (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970), had long been a movie I'd wanted to see. Observe: "A
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The Forgotten: Desert Island Discs
David CairnsQ: What record would you take to a desert island? A: Myself. Allow me to explain. A castaway finds an improbable art deco structure, quite deserted, on his new desert island home. But when he turns
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The Forgotten: Libertine or Death
David CairnsMichel Deville can't, or shouldn't, be considered forgotten, can/should he? He's still alive, and his last film was as recent as 2005 (Un fil à la patte, with Emanuelle Beart). Among his past works available
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The Forgotten: Toddlin' Town
David CairnsThe big question about Chicago (1927), the first version of the famous play which later gave us Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart and, ahem, some other people in a musical, is, "Did credited director Frank
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The First Enchantment: "Soul Boy" (Hawa Essuman, Kenya/Germany)
David CairnsTom Tykwer has had a somewhat up-and-down career, at least according to the reviews, but what he's up to now may be that rare thing in cinema, an unqualified good. Using his own money, he's set up a
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The Forgotten: Girls on a Motorcycle
David Cairns"When a director dies, he becomes a cinematographer." That softly devastating one-liner, initially applied, I believe, to Josef von Sternberg, perhaps comes from a prejudice against the purely visual
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The Forgotten: The Other Other House
David Cairns"No more Lubitsch," said Billy Wilder, at the Great Man's funeral. "Worse than that," said William Wyler. "No more Lubitsch movies." The suspicion, amounting almost to a certainty, that Jacques Rivette
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The Forgotten: Cold Warrior
David CairnsA Dandy in Aspic (1968) is Anthony Mann's last film, or perhaps not: he died during production, and the remaining footage, including the film's ending, was shot under the direction of the star, Laurence
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The Forgotten: Remember
David CairnsSomeone to Remember (1943) is a Robert Siodmak film so obscure even Deborah Lazaroff Alpi, author of the near-definitive R.S. overview Robert Siodmak, A Biography, apparently hadn't seen it. Shot during
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The Forgotten: Swift Boat Veterans
David CairnsTo begin with, something I'm outrageously proud of. Not only did my partner and I attend the public celebration of animator and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen's 90th birthday, but I was able
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The Forgotten: One Way Street
David CairnsJosef von Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929), his first talkie, is perhaps not so much forgotten as simply hard to see, which means it lives on in the minds of film lovers but in abstracted form, since so
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The Forgotten: Dance of Death
David CairnsDuring a brief and unsuccessful attempt at becoming a flaneur, and working off some excess weight, I found myself in an unfamiliar part of my city. Making my way down a street of boxy concrete structures