Christopher Saunders

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• Blogathon With The Great Katharine Hepburn

  

  Our friend Margaret Perry invited me to participate in her upcoming Katharine Hepburn blogathon. I'm currently tapped to review Hepburn's version of The Glass... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014

• The Blue Angel

  

  Another touchstone in Weimar Cinema, The Blue Angel (1930) is Josef Von Sternberg's best-known film. It made an icon of Marlene Dietrich, who soon decamped to... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014

• M (1931)

  

  Fritz Lang's penultimate German film, M (1931) is rightly regarded as a classic. Lang's multilayered masterpiece works as crime drama, social statement and... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014

• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

  

  Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) has a formidable reputation, enhanced for Anglosphere viewers by unavailability. Recently given... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014

• Groggy on Moviepilot: More Nazi Movies

  

  Groggy's most recent Moviepilot article explores a familiar topic: the counterfeit profundity of fascist fetishism. This article was prompted by Godfrey... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014

• Leni Riefenstahl: Fabricating Fascism

  

  "I am an artist through and through. That is Leni!"Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) was born to a businessman father and doting mother. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014

• The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

  

  "A Yankee being punished and rewarded for his curiosity."As both filmmaker and theorist, Lev Kuleshov ranks among cinema's great pioneers. One of his... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014

• Schindler's List

  

  Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) is a powerful yet problematic movie. Handsomely directed and impeccably acted, this adaptation of Thomas Keneally's... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014

• Groggy Watches TV: The Thick of It

  

  "You're not Josh, Ollie. Just write the fucking speech."Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing was a formative experience. That show's snappy dialogue, attractive cast an... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014

• The Pianist

  

  (2002) ranks among Roman Polanski's greatest achievements. Based on Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of Nazi-occupied Poland, it also draws heavily on Polanski's... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014

• Imagineering a Narrative

  

  Staying strictly macroApologies for the erratic schedule lately. I've spent the last month working sporadically on a fiction project, absorbing most of my free... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014

• Oscar Results 2014

  Oscars were last night. The winners, for the record:Best motion picture of the year“American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014

• Massacre in Rome

  

  Before helming action flicks like Rambo III and Tombstone, George P. Cosmatos debuted with this sober historical drama. Massacre in Rome (1973) depicts an... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014