Monday, January 27, 2020
Doctor Redux
Happy Birthday, Michael Parenti.
From late '93: "The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State"
Friday, January 24, 2020
Did LBJ Do It?
No, he didn't.
The great Rob Clark, aka Lone Gunman, with a typically deep and funny podcast on the question.
For all of Rob's priceless casts, go here.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Monday, January 6, 2020
Friday, January 3, 2020
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Raw
Is what 2020 will be. Raw for us all ~ the few good and for the many bad.
Anthony Mann understood. In 1948's Raw Deal a man (Dennis O'Keefe) breaks out of prison, an escape arranged for by his crime boss (Raymond Burr) who owes the man $50,000 and hopes he will die in the attempt, but carried out by the prisoner's girlfriend (Claire Trevor). The couple go on the run, taking with them a hostage (Marcia Hunt). The prisoner and the hostage fall in love.
The picture is a harsh and tragic love triangle among a doomed escaped con and two very different, needy women. Under Mann's direction and John Alton's astonishing photography, Raw Deal is a bleak, woeful, fiercely beautiful cry of despair. And perhaps the most forgotten great movie of the 1940s. As always with Mann, his characters struggle to survive within a ruthless, tyrannical system, for the most part individually, while trying to maintain some sense of principle and dignity.
Happy New Year!