Review by Dane Marti
Whether a person calls the much-maligned genre mystery, crime, suspense thrillers, pulp fiction, who-done-its or Noir, I’ve always been a fan of the genre in all of its manifestations. It’s all some people ever read! As for moi, perhaps it just shows that I have some twisted subconscious thoughts – or perhaps it just shows that I am like millions of other people who like the mystery and crime that keeps the reader turning the pages in frenzied anticipation.
I have no way of actually knowing, but I wonder how many writers of this particular genre have either been a part of an actual crime or committed one? Well, I know that Hitchcock, although a film director (and an excellent conceptualist of storyboarded scenes and the grammar of film) is a not a writer, but let’s face it, he had a twisted, but basically fun and active imagination.
Whether a person calls the much-maligned genre mystery, crime, suspense thrillers, pulp fiction, who-done-its or Noir, I’ve always been a fan of the genre in all of its manifestations. It’s all some people ever read! As for moi, perhaps it just shows that I have some twisted subconscious thoughts – or perhaps it just shows that I am like millions of other people who like the mystery and crime that keeps the reader turning the pages in frenzied anticipation.
I have no way of actually knowing, but I wonder how many writers of this particular genre have either been a part of an actual crime or committed one? Well, I know that Hitchcock, although a film director (and an excellent conceptualist of storyboarded scenes and the grammar of film) is a not a writer, but let’s face it, he had a twisted, but basically fun and active imagination.
- 11/16/2010
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This year's Hot Docs [1] festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and and only now have we finally managed to purge our thoughts on the many documentaries that we've seen this year. Jay put up a much more comprehensive post over on The Documentary Blog [2], but I have taken a selection of these reviews and reposted them here for your convenience. If you like what you see, be sure to head over there and read the rest. Also, don't forget to check out previous reviews of the following films: Teenage Paparazzo [3] The People vs. George Lucas [4] Gasland [5] Arsy-Versy [6] Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage [7] American: The Bill Hicks Story [8] The Invention of Dr Nakamats [9] 12th & Delaware [10] The Oath [11] Secrets of the Tribe [12] Capsule reviews for more films including Steven Soderbergh's And Everything is Going Fine, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's Kings of Pastry, and the David Lynch transcendental meditation...
- 5/21/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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