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Bigger Than Life, based in part on a New Yorker article from 1955, is regarded as one of the best films of the '50s. It stars James Mason as a happily married schoolteacher who's driven to violence because of a new "miracle drug" he takes when diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease. There's a new print screening at Film Forum for one week starting tonight, and Richard Brody at The New Yorker (conflict of interest!) says it's not to be missed: "The movie is one of the greatest views of the hidden fractures of family life and the demons that, for some, remain happily below the surface; as the teacher, James Mason disturbingly combines intellect, sensibility, and rage. The muted palette of Ray’s images is slashed by eruptions of luridly bright colors, the strangest of which is the cool purple glow of the little bottle of cortisone pills."
Blame his weekend's paltry crop of new movies on the studios' strategy of dropping their last Oscar hopes just before the New Year, which is when prestige pics like Benjamin Button and Revolutionary Road debuted. Those releases will no doubt eclipse this week's meager options, but let's try to keep up appearances, shall we? Excelsior!
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"The single most unconvincing death-camp scene I have encountered in a film" is added to my 2009 list of slams, right after, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth."
I didn't know James Bond was Jewish.
He is, but he only plays tough Jews, the ones who carry machine guns like in Defiance and Munich, not the kind that do your taxes.
Line blatantly cribbed from Jon Stewart