tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post6903557812555809726..comments2024-01-27T00:19:36.912-08:00Comments on Coleman's Corner in Cinema...: Kiss of Death (1947)Coleman's Corner in Cinema...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-80021744910924338042009-03-01T11:38:00.000-08:002009-03-01T11:38:00.000-08:00Thank you, Anonymous. Happy to see you enjoyed the...Thank you, Anonymous. Happy to see you enjoyed the review.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-21813463816265776452009-03-01T11:23:00.000-08:002009-03-01T11:23:00.000-08:00Fantastic review of a great film noir, Mr. Coleman...Fantastic review of a great film noir, Mr. Coleman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-37581074557448028762009-02-11T02:17:00.000-08:002009-02-11T02:17:00.000-08:00Thank you very much, Anonymous. Agreed on both cou...Thank you very much, Anonymous. Agreed on both counts.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-88210109036368423452009-02-11T00:10:00.000-08:002009-02-11T00:10:00.000-08:00Brilliant review of an underrated film noir. Victo...Brilliant review of an underrated film noir. Victor Mature was never better. And who can deny that Richard Widmark was a fantastic pscyho?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-58260785585039318852009-01-31T18:39:00.000-08:002009-01-31T18:39:00.000-08:00Thank you kindly, Tim. I'm happy to hear that.Thank you kindly, Tim. I'm happy to hear that.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-76662298321279723002009-01-31T11:32:00.000-08:002009-01-31T11:32:00.000-08:00Saw it again with your piece in mind. Fabulous wor...Saw it again with your piece in mind. <BR/><BR/>Fabulous work. A great study guide to this movie. Never really thought of Hathaway in these contexts before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-76709299249394067762009-01-26T16:00:00.000-08:002009-01-26T16:00:00.000-08:00Thank you for the kind words, Anonymous. This is a...Thank you for the kind words, Anonymous. This is a fine entry in film noir.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-4568783661641911532009-01-26T15:44:00.000-08:002009-01-26T15:44:00.000-08:00One of my favorite noirs. Great review here! I lov...One of my favorite noirs. Great review here! I love Victor Mature in this movie and of course Richard Widmark is one brilliant psycho.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-459456066494819082009-01-24T01:05:00.000-08:002009-01-24T01:05:00.000-08:00mc, thank you for the kind remarks.Tony, thank you...mc, thank you for the kind remarks.<BR/><BR/>Tony, thank you very much. Yes, Colleen Gray is rather wonderful in this film. It's vital to the film that she sway the audience, as she sways Mature's Bianco, and she's always engaging as Nettie, just as you say. I like your point about the uneasy sympathy, as Tommy Udo is actually given a more complex, and ambiguous, treatment by the screenplay than I believe many would assume. I always like that scene between Udo and Bianco in the restaurant; it truly establishes just how perpetually adolescent Udo is, and you actually feel sorry for him in a way that goes beyond the mechanics of the plot (Bianco "ratting out" his former colleagues). It's a little bit like the now-classic relationship between hero and villain, in which the villain has taken the hero under his wing, only to be betrayed. And I love the way Udo always calls his adversaries "squirts."<BR/><BR/>I had a line in my review about the film taking place on real locations in New York City, the Hathaway... way, but I'm afraid the sentence didn't make it into the review. In any event, I do love Hathaway's use of real locations, and architecture. <BR/><BR/>Which brings me to Dark City Dame. Thank you for the kind words as well, Dark City Dame, and for further bolstering my case for Hathaway's visually rich direction with your linking to more information. I believe I remember reading you write about your "crush" on Victor Mature--haha! I can understand that. Did that come out wrong? His screen presence, his performance--he was never better than in <I>Kiss of Death</I>. He earns the audience's sympathy. As Tony says, his scenes with his two girls, while avoiding sentimentality, are delicate and achieve audience identification with the protagonist. He's truly quite excellent here.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I love Hathaway's command <I>mise-en-scene</I>, and the geometric intelligence and gracefulness he brings to his pictures. Thank you again, everyone.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-85804237560062804482009-01-23T21:59:00.000-08:002009-01-23T21:59:00.000-08:00Hi! Alexander,You makes so many excellant points a...Hi! Alexander,<BR/>You makes so many excellant points about one of my favorite film(s) <B>"Kiss of Death" and actor(s) Victor Mature</B>...<BR/><BR/>(My "crush" on him is "world renown"... I know, I know, it's kind of "one sided"...haha!)<BR/><BR/>...character Nick Bianco, low key, but yet very memorable performance. <BR/><BR/>Even though when this film is usually discussed actor Richard Widmark's character Tommy Udo, performance is usually singled out as the most memorable. I agree, but his deliverance of an outstanding performance as far as, I'am concern don't stand alone. <BR/><BR/>I think that actor Victor Mature, nuanced performance is outstanding too! (Btw, I already discussed actors Victor Mature and Richard Widmark, performances with Tony (D'Ambra), over there on his blog.)<BR/><BR/>I also like the fact, that you pointed out director Henry Hathaway's use of architecture.<BR/><BR/>Alexander, if you would like to find out more about director Henry Hathaway,and other "classic" films and director just visit the website that I have linked below...<BR/><BR/>Micheal E. Grost website...<BR/>http://mikegrost.com/mymyst.htm<BR/><BR/>Below is a quote from Mike Grost, discussing director Henry Hathaway use of architecture...<BR/>Mike Grost said, "Frontal staging and use of architecture<BR/>There is much London location photography in 23 Paces to Baker Street. Stylistically, it recalls Hathaway's mid 1940's location filmed semi-documentaries. Even the title has a number in it, "23", recalling Hathaway semi-docs. <BR/><BR/>The most beautiful scene in the film is shot in a London park. Here Hathaway shows his fondness for ornamental grill work, something that appears in almost all of his location shot films. <BR/><BR/>Hathaway tends to shoot the locations frontally, with a building, doorway or piece of grillwork exactly parallel to the plane of the screen. This makes the background extremely easy to see and understand. The characters are often framed by doors or windows. There is a geometric quality to these - each character has their own background region of rectilinear space." <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Tks,<BR/>DCD ;-)ratatouille's archiveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06369967577590947967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-83250260051524637142009-01-23T21:35:00.000-08:002009-01-23T21:35:00.000-08:00A great exposition of Hathaway's use of mise-en-sc...A great exposition of Hathaway's use of mise-en-scene, Alexander.<BR/><BR/>I particularly like the unaffected Coleen Gray as the very engaging Nettie. There is a bit of uneasy sympathy in the viewer for Tommy Udo when Nick Bianco fresh out of jail (after cutting the deal with the DA) is milking Udo, who is feting him as a friend in a restaurant. But Udo's misogyny however, soon displaces this uneasiness. The action is set mostly on the actual streets of New York, where the innocent streets of suburbia in the afternoon are a counterpoint to the dark sordid streets of the city at night. The family scenes of Bianco with his daughters and Nettie are beautifully played and deeply moving, without resort to sentimentality. I agree that the only weakness is the redundant and banal voice-over commentary on the action by Nettie.Tony D'Ambrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00359495250856189815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-91240352265715803912009-01-23T17:57:00.000-08:002009-01-23T17:57:00.000-08:00Alexander Coleman proves that this film is more th...Alexander Coleman proves that this film is more than Richard Widmark playing the psycho who periodically appears. Terrific review and analysis of Henry Hathaway's direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-3673819566805664742009-01-23T17:12:00.000-08:002009-01-23T17:12:00.000-08:00Thank you, Tim, for the very kind words. Widmark w...Thank you, Tim, for the very kind words. Widmark wins over the lion's share of the film's acclaim, but there is much more to it.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-25918406865498892052009-01-23T17:07:00.000-08:002009-01-23T17:07:00.000-08:00Wow. What a great review. I never saw so much dept...Wow. What a great review. I never saw so much depth in this movie until reading your extremely insightful piece. Wonderful job here. I have to see this again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-30205419742268104672009-01-23T16:46:00.000-08:002009-01-23T16:46:00.000-08:00I love my readership.I love my readership.Coleman's Corner in Cinema...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04761319284479513957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342369910596581403.post-71108815328227306642009-01-23T15:58:00.000-08:002009-01-23T15:58:00.000-08:00startling portrait of american natural situations ...startling portrait of american natural situations from hot members of the air newspapers. new york dogs in pakistan with racing works in the great disappointment with progress majority.new agendas and reporters that no one else had and i think the blue went around thank you and it means a lot.three days and it is so lovely tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com