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Jaspar Lamar Crabb: Filmography

02 Jun 12
Doctor Dolittle

Yeah...it sucks

Doctor Dolittle
02 Jun 12
Sacco and Vanzetti

Two monumental performances in a film that strays a bit too much. Still, a high water mark in Montaldo's career

Sacco and Vanzetti
02 Jun 12
Tropic of Cancer

Kudos to Joseph Strick for taking a stab at this one...it's only so-so, but Rip Torn is dynamite

Tropic of Cancer
02 Jun 12
Summer and Smoke

The performance by Geraldine Page has to rank as one of the all-time greats...she's so controlled while being completely OUT OF CONTROL

Summer and Smoke

Somehow this film is buried but it's actually extremely well acted, with the great Moreau leading the pack.

The Sailor from Gibraltar
01 Jun 12
A Foreign Affair

The most sublime, perfectly cast of all Wilder's films of the 1940s

A Foreign Affair

It's ridiculous...and WILDLY ENTERTAINING...a kind of free fall of a movie...with no real sense of time & space.

Inglourious Basterds

It's not awful that's for sure, but it is hopelessly dated, awkwardly directed (almost TOO flashy in its attempt to show ALL that is seedy in NYC circa 1965). Sal Mineo is terrific but Juliet Prowse is too gawky and aloof to be convincing as the object of anyone's obsession. The oddball supporting cast helps...Jan Murray, Elaine Strich (very butch) and Stanley Beck.

Who Killed Teddy Bear?
28 May 12
Seven Days in May

A tremendous performance by Burt Lancaster

Seven Days in May
28 May 12
Swept Away

One of the best movies of the '70s

Swept Away
28 May 12
Hang 'Em High

Arguably the best non-Leone Eastwood western...and a dynamite cast!

Hang 'Em High
28 May 12
The Young Stranger

John Frankenheimer hit the ground running with this film...sort of a less spectacular REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.

The Young Stranger
28 May 12
The Oscar

A camp classic...the idea of Stephen Boyd being an Oscar contender is in itself absurd...but then throw in Milton Berle in a dramatic role, Edie Adams & Ernest Borgnine as a couple, Joseph Cotten looking grey and really old, and of course there's Tony Bennett as Hymie Kelly !!?!?!? And did Harlan Ellison REALLY have a hand in this script?

The Oscar
28 May 12
Death in Venice

The performance by Dirk Bogarde is so staggering it's a shame the movie isn't better. It's one thing to move at a deliberate pace, another to be remarkably boring

Death in Venice
28 May 12
The V.I.P.s

A soap opera to be sure, but with such high class production values and a killer cast (Taylor & Burton yes, but also M Rutherford, M. Smith, E Martinelli and, best of all O Welles...sending up every double talkng producer imaginable!)

The V.I.P.s

Not good...in fact, very bad indeed.

Promise Her Anything
22 May 12
Child's Play

A superb, nearly forgotten psycho-drama. James Mason is miraculous and Robert Preston more than holds his own

Child's Play
22 May 12
Asylum

All the stories are clever, but none is particularly scary. The prologue features the always unusual Patrick Magee as the acting head of the asylum. To say this institution's HR Department needs to be revamped is an understatement

Asylum
22 May 12
Before Winter Comes

David Niven looks old, Anna Karina looks lost and Topol yells a lot

Before Winter Comes
22 May 12
Heaven's Gate

It grows on you...it's way out of control...but there is so much beauty here, it's hard to fuly dislike it

Heaven's Gate
21 May 12
Daniel

A near classic with some great time-bending direction by Sidney Lumet. Timothy Hutton is great the supporting cast is stellar: Ed Asner, Tovah Feldsuh; Amanda Plummer

Daniel
21 May 12
Small Time Crooks

Hysterical...

Small Time Crooks
21 May 12
The Outside Man

With its European sensibility and LA locations, THE OUTSIDE MAN is something of an oddity but the acting is dynamite. Jean Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ted de Corsia, Georgia Engel...one of the buried treasures of the 1970s!

The Outside Man

Featuring some of Lucio Fulci's best direction (not sure that's really saying a whole lot).

Four of the Apocalypse
19 May 12
The Salamander

Not nearly as good as you'd expect considering the heavyweight cast!

The Salamander
12 May 12
The Descendants

An astounding achievement. It works on every level...it's wrenching, funny, wrenching, funny. It's also one of the best acted films to come along in a long time. Alexander Payne is now 5 for 5.

The Descendants

You HAVE to see this

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
06 May 12
Leo the Last

Mastroianni is great and the film is really well put together...it says a lot about isolation, decaying class systems as well as plain old fashioned mental illness

Leo the Last
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The best of Woody Allen's early funny films!

Take the Money and Run