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• William Smith wrote a new blog post: The Battle of Austerlitz review   2 days, 12 hours ago
  

  Silent-cinema expert he may well have been, but by this time in his career Abel Gance was creatively a bird-dog of his quondam self. It was a brave idea of the Salkinds to hire charge him for this chronicle of Bonaparte’s famous overcoming over the Austro-Prussian army, but the result, destined for all its unreasonable [...]

• William Smith wrote a new blog post: A Chorus Line (1985)   3 days, 16 hours ago
  

  Marvin Hamlisch was riding high in Hollywood in the originally 1970s with the success of his scores for The Manner We Were and The Stab. But as he relates in the associated documentary, Hamlisch had on all occasions had a yearning for doing Broadway. When he reprobate Hollywood and did so, the issue [...]

• William Smith wrote a new blog post: Creepshow review   4 days, 22 hours ago
  

  In this collaboration with Stephen King, director George Romero assembles a noteworthy cast and pays vividly hued homage to the E.C. horror comics of the 1950s. (This film appeared years before the TALES FROM THE CRYPT series.) Five creepy tales are strung together by a framing legend involving a young knave being punished by his [...]

• William Smith wrote a new blog post: Tess Harding (Katharine Hepbur…   6 days, 23 hours ago
  

  Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) is a high-profile, popularity newspaperman because the Budding York Recount, where Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) is a laid-cast off sports columnist. Their conflict begins in copy, but when they meet, there’s chemistry. Although their lifestyles are universes apart, they decide to get married, but coupling doesn’t reveal their problems, it accentuates [...]

• William Smith wrote a new blog post: “Only works in parts but fail…   1 week, 1 day ago
  

  “Only works in parts but fails
  to resonate as a whole.”
  Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
  An unrewarding and overworked melodrama in the form of an allegory
  by legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda (”Ashes and Diamonds”) that
  only works in parts but fails to resonate as a whole. The screenplay was
  based on conversations with Andrzej Markowski and was written by Andrzej
  Kijowski. 
  Jan [...]

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