As a crime thriller, it's notable for the absence of gunfights, chase scenes, double-crosses, and back-stabbings. And yet, the finished product is uniquely compelling. Screenplay by Martin Goldsmith, based on his novelīy Bryant Frazer Among legitimate Hollywood classics, Detour is about as threadbare as they come: a small film, shot on a shoestring over a handful of days (between six and 14, depending on whose accounting you believe) at a Poverty Row film studio. Starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald The men and the pre-motherhood teen girl are silly and unmoored to the cold realities of existence.Ĭontinue reading "Fantasia Fest '21: Giving Birth to a Butterfly" » The best part of this film is the first part establishing a tense family dynamic, with Diane maybe the only adult in the room. That's the essential premise of Giving Birth to a Butterfly: that women aren't in charge of their own fate-ever, but particularly when they're in the process of expressing their biology. It's weird, you know, because Marlene doesn't even seem to want to be there. Marlene needs a place to stay, and against Diane's wishes, everyone's planning to impose Marlene upon Diane's household. Trapped in a loveless marriage with oaf Daryl (Paul Sparks), Diane (Annie Parisse) is mother to wry Danielle (Rachel Resheff) and a dreamer of a boy (Owen Campbell) who has just brought home a girlfriend, Marlene (Gus Birney), pregnant by another. For more details, visit their website.īy Walter Chaw Theodore Schaefer's Giving Birth to a Butterfly is in love with doubling and other broad metaphors deployed to speak, Kieslowski-like, to the winsome possibilities of unlived lives. Written by Patrick Lawler & Theodore Schaeferįantasia Festival runs from August 5 to August 25, 2021. Starring Gus Birney, Annie Parisse, Paul Sparks, Judith Roberts His follow-up, the Thornton Wilder-penned Shadow of a Doubt, is the all-American Hitchcock that works, locating the country's heart in the introduction of a human stain into a small town and a wholesome family.Ĭontinue reading "Saboteur (1942) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code" » The desire to embrace his adopted culture is so conspicuous it becomes uncomfortably obvious in multiple instances (stops at the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, and even the Hoover Dam) that setting has fatally superseded narrative. (If there's a case to be made about the importance of Alma to Hitchcock's career, it may be useful to examine those films where we know she was absent.) I also think of Saboteur, when I do, as an attempt at an "all-American" film of the kind Hitchcock, fearing he'd left Britain trailing with him too much of the old country, was desperate to make. They left creative absences Hitch tried to fill-disastrously, I think-with Algonquin Roundtable alumni Peter Viertel and Dorothy Parker. Screenplay by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parkerīy Walter Chaw When I think of Saboteur, which isn't often, it's as the first American project Hitchcock developed largely without his beloved assistant Joan Harrison, who left after co-writing the first draft (seeing in the opportunity to produce The Phantom Lady her chance to wriggle out from under Hitch's shadow), and, maybe more significantly, without his most essential collaborator, wife Alma Reville, then away in New York with their daughter Pat, who had just won the lead role in a play. Starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger
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