Tag: John Boorman

  • Quickies, Vol. XXII

    Duplicity (dir. Tony Gilroy, 2009) – Refreshing and helpful to see this one for the first time since the big screen. What stands out now is how it turns on its head the traditional caper movie, something that Gilroy was probably only too glad to do after penning the Bourne stuff. So what this amounts…

  • Quickies, Vol. X

    The Philadelphia Story (1940, dir. George Cukor). Much better upon growing up twenty years or so. This is a bit more of an “adult” movie than other Grant-Hepburn-Stewart fare; perhaps more in the vein of Tracy-Hepburn, such as Adam’s Rib. Apparently the marriage-divorce-remarriage genre was popular at this time as a way of being a…