Category Archives: Double Feature
Double Feature: Simon of the Desert (1965)/The Monk (1972)
Luis Buñuel had come out of the desert with Viridiana (1961). Since 1945 the Spanish-born enfant terrible behind the definitive works of Surrealist cinema, Un Chien Andalou (1929, with Salvador Dalí) and L’Age d’Or (1930), had been living in Mexico, … Continue reading
Double Feature: Remember Last Night? (1935)/Somewhere in the Night (1946)
My memory isn’t so great these days; and, anyway, memory plays tricks. Do I remember Remember Last Night? (1935)…let’s see, it was a couple days ago, and I’ll be damned if I can remember who actually did it in this … Continue reading
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Tagged 30's, 40's, Comedy, film noir, hangover, James Whale, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mystery, Robert Young, screwball comedy, Whodunit
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Double Feature: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)/Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
When I was a child, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) were one and the same – a four-hour Sinbad miniseries, with all the islands, wizards, beautiful girls, and Ray Harryhausen … Continue reading
