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The CineFiles

Independent Newsmedia news services editor Jeremy Carr shares his views on films recently released on Blu-ray/DVD and those appearing on television in the coming week. Carr is a faculty associate with Arizona State University's film and media studies program and visiting research fellow with the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture.

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"Hondo"
When John Wayne made Hondo in 1953, his masculine all-American tough guy persona was already well-established. Rumor has it that after a screening of Hondo Wayne himself said, “I’ll be damned if ... 		81
"It"
Just what was, or still is, "it"? According to British novelist Elinor Glyn, who coined the term, at least as far as it's referred to here, the phenomenon can mean various things: "a strange magnetis ... 		85
"Notorious"
  In 1946, when Notorious was released, Alfred Hitchcock and stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman were at the top of their game. Since his first American feature, Rebecca, in 1940, Hitchcock had in ... 		82
"Journey to Italy"
                                                                           Roberto Rossellini had more than made a name for himself with the Neorealist trilogy of Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (194 ... 		102
"I Know Where I'm Going!"
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, together known as The Archers, were rapidly growing to prominence in the British film industry by the time they made I Know Where I'm Going! in 1945. In a rel ... 		149
"The True Story of Jesse James"
The character of Jesse James, at least as he is commonly personified in the mythical terms of Robin Hood-esque anti-heroism, seems to be ideal fodder for the thematic proclivities of director Nichola ... 		218
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
                                                                       In the period of Germany’s Weimar Republic, a unique and volatile pre- and post-war era within a window of less than 20 years, ... 		189
"To the Wonder"
  When writer/director Terrence Malick released The Tree of Life in 2011 it was his first film since The New World, in 2005. It was also just his fifth feature since 1973. Then all of a sudden this ... 		207
"Crime Wave"
                                  The first striking feature of Crime Wave, an excellent, low-budget 1954 release from Warner Brothers, is the sound. For a Film Noir, a type of film typically iden ... 		173
Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander"
   In preparation for my screening of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal on Monday, I wanted to share some thoughts on the Swedish master's last great film, Fanny and Alexander, from 1982. Fanny and ... 		183
Greta Garbo in "Queen Christina"
                                                                       "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober." So said critic Kenneth Tynan in 1954. Not only is this ... 		353
"The Seventh Seal"
        In a shameless bit of self-promotion, I wanted to use this latest blog entry to encourage all who may be reading to attend a film screening I’m hosting next Monday, April 8. Ingmar Bergman ... 		191
"Intolerance"
My reaction to D.W. Griffith’s masterwork Intolerance (1916) has always been one of wonder, and that feeling increases each time I see the picture and as I discover more about film history, Griffith ... 		162
Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game"
The masterful Jean Renior, the great humanist of the cinema, created not only his masterpiece with La règle du jeu, but also one of the few films to rival Citizen Kane as the greatest movie ever made ... 		152
Jean-Luc Godard's "Hail Mary"
  "Deeply wounds the religious sentiments of believers." – Pope John Paul II       With the appointment of a new pope, the beginning of Holy Week and President Obama's recent trip to the Holy Land ... 		229

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