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…
Polanski’s archetypal art house film is reminiscent of Antonioni’s L’avventura with a bit of that Bruce Willis movie Bandits thrown in. Low camera angles, human foregrounding, and the constant sound…
The famous line from Chinatown comes when legendary director John Huston, in a sinister role, utters to Jake Gittes (Nicholson), “You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but…