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[photopress:ggr.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Jack’s no lemon One of the best things about having a site where films are discussed is that you’re in a position to talk up your favourite movies. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) is one of those, and I know my esteemed writing partner James agrees. This is a film that deserves to be watched – not [...] Damn hot! A critic knows a masterpiece when it drives him or her to distraction in shovelling out a new angle with each new appraisal. With an auteur like Billy Wilder at the helm, one’s pencil is going to be bitten and licked to the quick. The hook for the studio here was, firstly, Tony Curtis and [...] Bad day at the office? Thank your luckies you’re not CC Baxter, Jack Lemmon’s resentfully downtrodden clerk in an NYC corporation, who has become so cowed by the predations of his boss and the insecurity of his position he allows his superiors use of his flat to have it off with their mistresses. He’s 9 to [...] Comedy coup Is Neal Hefti’s misleadingly jaunty theme tune for The Odd Couple derived from Klezmer? It should be, because writer Neil Simon’s stratospheric comedy of bad manners is possibly one of the most New York-Jewish films ever made. True, there are no references to nebbechim or kasha or bubelehim or goyim or jokes about protective [...] |
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