JOHN ROBERSON

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Favorite films

  • O Lucky Man!
  • Blue Velvet
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God

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  • Bicycle Thieves

    ★★★★★

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade

    ★★★★

  • Dune

    ★★★

  • Witchhammer

    ★★★★★

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  • Bicycle Thieves

    Bicycle Thieves 1948

    ★★★★★ Added

    It took me a long time to get around to it but having watched this now, I loved it. The one thing that puzzles me--all my life I've heard that the neorealist style in this was "documentary-like," and I don't see that at all--this is a very professional, well-acted, well-written film that seems like what it is, and it in no way seems like a documentary, except that it's in a very real setting. (Not a criticism at all.)

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968

    ★★★★ Added

    I've recently been delving into Tony Richardson, having not seen many of his films till recently. I find him interesting as a director kind of in between eras. CHARGE is the one that I've been finding an interesting curiosity to rewatch the last month or so. And it's not like it's a particularly good film as such--though very watchable--but the WAY it's done is kind of weird so it's interesting. There's of course the animated framing sequences, which I like…

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  • Herostratus

    Herostratus 1967

    ★★★★½ Added

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    A bit of PIERROT LE FOU, a bit of A FACE IN THE CROWD, a bit of Francis Bacon, amd a dash of Robbe-Grillet. It's trying lots of things and not all succeed, but a lot of it is at least stylistically interesting. What's weird is how much it looks like but precedes. It seems it was at least influential. It has an anger you don't see as much in London films of the period.
    The most similar film I…

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941

    ★★★★ Added

    The 1941 remake by Victor Fleming of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is not better than its predecessor but different.
    1. What I like: a lot of subtlety in the dialogue and acting. Tracy is very creepy in the piano scene. And Ingrid Bergman(who, I'll confess, is HOT in this film) seems to have done a performance here that inspired her daughter's in BLUE VELVET. (if marred by some diction problems and her accent constantly changing) And it's a great-looking production.…

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