Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
The Snow Maiden (1968)
Continuing our foray into the colorful world of Russian fairy tale cinema, The Snow Maiden (1968), like its protagonist, has a foot in two different worlds. It has touches of the candy-coated, hyper-imaginative fairy tale films of Aleksandr Ptushko (Sadko, … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, fairy tale, Fantasy, Russian
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Aleksandr Ptushko’s penultimate special effects fantasy (before the sublime Ruslan and Ludmila) was The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967), based on another of Pushkin’s poems and filled with rhyming dialogue and rich storybook imagery. The film opens with a Pushkin … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Aleksandr Ptushko, fairy tale, Fantasy, giants, lovable animals, Russian, Surreal
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Double Feature: Remember Last Night? (1935)/Somewhere in the Night (1946)
My memory isn’t so great these days; and, anyway, memory plays tricks. Do I remember Remember Last Night? (1935)…let’s see, it was a couple days ago, and I’ll be damned if I can remember who actually did it in this … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Smoking Gun
Tagged 30's, 40's, Comedy, film noir, hangover, James Whale, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mystery, Robert Young, screwball comedy, Whodunit
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