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Rodney
Welch
Elgin, South Carolina
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About Me

“I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.”

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I Live in Fear

Minor Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune as an aging, Lear-like businessman whose fear of impending nuclear war tears his family apart. Rather a surprising misfire; while nuclear anxiety was and remains a timely subject, this talky family drama never really taps into the full tragic potential of the subject. Strong performances by Mifune and Takashi Shimura, who played the dying man in the director's immortal "Ikiru."

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Alice-in-the-cities

Alice in the Cities

Viridiana

Viridiana

I-vitelloni

I vitelloni

Jules-and-jim

Jules and Jim

Style

  • Auteur-driven
  • Melancholy
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Nouvelle vague
  • Canonical classics
  • Shh!—silent cinema
  • Of-the-past
  • High Art
  • Vanguard cinema
  • Neorealist

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Justin Vicari

2May13

Hey Rodney, I am sorry I came off as a dick in some of our exchanges a few years back. I had a lot of fear and aggression in those days and I couldn't even stand it when someone agreed with me about something! I'm not such a hard ass today, well at least not anywhere near as much. But I am glad to see you here and I hope you can forgive me. Justin Vicari

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    Rodney Welch

    2May13

    No problem, man, but I don't recall it being that much of a problem, just the occasional fracas between people with impassioned views. Hey, I gt the box of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" for Christmas. And I have the Doblin novel. Hope to write something about both.

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    Justin Vicari

    2May13

    That's cool. Enjoy Berlin Alexanderplatz, it's a great cinematic journey.

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Dzimas

13Aug10

Rodney, I noticed your comment on Pale Fire. You didn't happen to go by philostrate at some point in time?

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Polyglot

20Apr10

Have you been to the Indie Grits festival?

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Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

4Jan10

Hey Rodney, remember me from the classic cinema group at MySpace? good to see you here. Do you keep in touch with lietzhu (chris) at all?

Reviews

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Pleasures of the Flesh

Pleasures of the Flesh

Noir entry from Nagisa Oshima, whose people tend not so much to be greedy as they are desperate and lonely, forced to decide between several bad choices. Here a young tutor kills a man for the girl…  read review

Story of a Prostitute

Story of a Prostitute

Another tonic blast of emotionally-charged adrenaline from Suzuki. His films are always lusty, innovative and inspiring; B-movies made by very smart, creative people who make violent, erotic fever…  read review

Good Morning

Good Morning

Not Ozu’s best, but quite charming.

Kind of amusing to see that Ozu is said to have been an influence on Martin Scorsese. In Roger Ebert’s new book on Scorsese, the director discusses his differences…  read review

I Was Born, But...

I Was Born, But...

Yasuhiro Ozu’s early silent comedy about how children encounter the class system is surprisingly fresh and enduring, even if it does creak a little with age. Two young boys, whose father has transferred…  read review

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I Live in Fear

I Live in Fear

  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night

  • Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
Solaris

Solaris

  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
Claire's Knee

Claire's Knee

  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.