“Your innocence, Mr. Neville, is always sinister.” Given his background as an artist, it’s no surprise that director Peter Greenaway would focus on the subject as a source for his movies. Twenty five years apart, The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) and Nightwatching (2007) are mirror images of each other, each focusing on an artist who smuggles…
Month: February 2019
Rififi (1955)
Rififi is one of those films that is so accessible and so engaging that it’s a wonder it’s not become one of those Christmas action staples like The Great Escape (1963) or Where Eagles Dare (1968). It has everything that the American popcorn movies have and more: tension, action, even a (somewhat incongruous) song, but because it is…
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