Jeffrey Gold

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Splendid sense of time and place. Helgelend did the same for “LA Confidential” 20 years earlier. Tom Hardy is remarkably distinguished from Tom Hardy in look, voice, comportment, and in their respective ways, they’re both very heartfelt and sincere — as much as a sociopath and psychopath can be… 10 years on, the movie is starting to ripen like a sauternes being served at one of Reggie’s London clubs.

Legend

Not Whale’s pastoral horrors of the first two entries in the series, but lean, concise and more Germanic-expressionist. An American film noir before The Maltese Falcon “created” the genre two years later. Splendid, detailed performances — variously extravagant, camp, gothic and deadly sincere — by Rathbone, Karloff, Lugosi and Atwill. You can see how much Mel Brooks and Kubrick were indebted to director Rowland Lee’s version of the franchise as the foundation for Young Frankenstein and Dr Strangelove, respectively.

Son of Frankenstein

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Moron. Monster. Maven. Maverick. Mentor. Master. Forget Lou Reed’s history and reputation of anger, vengefulness, narcissism, “opinions,” and later-year, self-indulgent, diffidence. Instead, rinse your eyes and ears, and see and hear again the sincerity of “Sunday Morning,” and “Jesus.” The beatifying electro-shock therapy of side two of “White Light/ White Heat.” The rolling thunder of “Wagon Wheel” and “Train Round The Bend.” The echo chamber orchestra (bless Bob Ezrin) of every moment in that emotionally divided City that is “Berlin.” He said, arrogantly, astutely, on Metal Machine Music, “My week beats your year.” Ultimately, Lou wasn’t a man. He was a planet unto himself.

Berlin

2 likes

Cartoonish characterizations and ideations, didactic, obvious and moralizing. Russell has never written a word he doesn’t think is “for the Ages,” hence he abhors the editor’s saving blue pencil. I truly think Russell truly thinks he’s “the rich man’s Wes Anderson/Cohen Bros,” — “quirky, symmetrical and sardonic” — but Cinema is only the poorer for his effort. Docked another star for abjectly wasting the sincere Margot Robbie and Zoe Saldana and the sensuous period production values.

Amsterdam

10 likes