The two scenes you mention are also powerful, I believe, because the horror is largely on the periphery of what Tarantino emphasizes in his blocking and editing. He focuses on how Django and the masters comport themselves and check out each others s ense of masculine performance rather than brutalizing the audience…

DJANGO struck me as a more mature work than the films that preceeded it, in that it specifically used genre homages as tools to meditate on the meaning of exploitation in an historical and aesthetic sense. It's tonal shifts, however, consistantly evade Tarantino staking any emotional investment to the material in…

Tarantino's problem isn't that his aesthetic involves heavily borrowed references. Influence is an inherent part of the movies. It's the way that, particularly since KILL BILL, those influences fail to coalesce into a tone that conveys the director's emotional core in a way that involves the audience. He…

One of the things that might put a dent in Tarantino's legacy is that he made his most elegiac film relatively early in his career.

The Egyptian, just down the street is also 70mm ready, but it doesn't have a platter and would require a skilled projectionist to do the changeover.

Most of the projectors being used for the film's release are using re-built elements and require constant adjustment, and as the article suggests, those trained to maintain the equipment are hard to find and expensive. When I managed a revival house back in the late 80s union projectionists were getting about $100 an…

The audience?

Fantastic obit.

You're in the right ball park, genre wise, , but Bigger than Life was directed by Nicholas Ray, and Matthau does indeed kick Mason's ass. Sirk made Imitation of Life, in which no asses were harmed, but its pretty good nonetheless.

I saw ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA with O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. Even saved their seats.

Points for still calling it Grauman's

THE BIG LEBOWSKI, GOODFELLAS and BOOGIE NIGHTS hold a rich cache of casual quotes for me, which drives my wife crazy.

MacDonald fits definitely in the former category, minus the gonzo lunacy of Thompson and the self satisfied snarkiness of Chandler. His novels, while narrated from the detective's POV, offers a gentler, more sincerely tragic overview of the victims and victimizers in the genre's cosmology. He also fleshes out the…

The James Warner Bellah stories that the calvery trilogy were based on were much more racist as well.

Actually Ford tried to make Stewart appear to be a racist after the actor made some comment on Strode's costume looking Uncle Tom-ish.

There really isn't a signatory trope in Ford's work in the way it depicts Native Americans, and an auteurial analysis of the director should concentrate more on his treatment of heroism and community, as well as visual and editing preferences. Ford's treatment of Native Americans pretty much runs the gamut of…

Based on Rabin's Facebook post, that might be possible, I'm afraid

My vote would be UNITED PASSIONS

It appears that the attorneys who worked on Michael Egan's case have settled and publicly apologized to several of those whom the plaintiff accused over the weeked and paid a 1 million dollar settlement for malicious prosecution. This review doesn't relate how the film delves into this case in detail, but I wonder if…

And based on his suit of armor at the tower, large in other areas as well.