The Movie Book

REBEL REBEL 199 Claude Chabrol was born in 1930 in Sardent, in rural France, where he ran a movie club as a child. Before direct ...

SOME DAY AND THAT DAY MAY NEVER COME I WILL CALL UPON YOU TO DO A SERVICE FOR ME THE GODFATHER / 1972 ...

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202 THE GODFATHER 00:01 At his daughter Connie’s wedding to Carlo, Don Corleone receives a series of men seeking favors. His son ...

REBEL REBEL 203 to establish their place in the world. Few movies have focused quite so starkly on the moral contradictions invo ...

204 THE GODFATHER but others maintained that it captured perfectly a man wearied by power and its obligations. Puzo told Brando ...

REBEL REBEL 205 Sonny (James Caan, left) is Corleone’s eldest son. When his brother-in-law Carlo (Gianni Russo) hits Connie, Son ...

206 THAT MAN IS A HEAD TALLER THAN ME. THAT MAY CHANGE AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD / 1972 W erner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of G ...

REBEL REBEL 207 From the outset of the expedition, Aguirre’s eyes shine with the insanity of his obsession. The movie’s message ...

208 THE GUESTS ARE HERE SIR THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE / 1972 L uis Buñuel was a master of social satire and the surr ...

REBEL REBEL 209 What else to watch: The Rules of the Game (1939, pp.60-61) ■ Divorce Italian Style (1961) ■ The Exterminating An ...

210 The movie poster hints at the ending without giving anything away. Like John, the audience only finds out at the end of the ...

REBEL REBEL 211 This one who’s blind. She’s the one who can see. Laura Baxter / Don’t Look Now seems to be a warning. “Don’t loo ...

212 DON’T LOOK NOW traps; St. Mark’s Square, for example, makes a single, easy-to-miss appearance. The movie sticks to the backw ...

REBEL REBEL 213 The danger of falling is ever present. Laura is taken to hospital after a fall in the restaurant. John is nearly ...

214 YOU CAN TALK TO HIM WHENEVER YOU WANT. JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND CALL HIM THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE / 1973 E ven though he wa ...

REBEL REBEL 215 What else to watch: Pather Panchali (1955, pp.132–33) ■ Whistle Down the Wind (1961) ■ Cria Cuervos (1976) ■ Fan ...

YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO NOSY FELLOWS? CHINATOWN / 1974 ...

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218 CHINATOWN R oman Polanski’s movie Chinatown is a gripping thriller with a truly nasty sting in its tail. Jack Nicholson play ...