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Coosa Creek Mambo
http://coosacreek.org/mambo
Film reviews, commentary, and analysis, with a healthy dose of news and personal opinion. We consider classic as well as current foreign and Hollywood films.
Recent Posts
Friends and Enemies in The Third Man: Part I
After World War II, the United States emerged as a world power, and films from more than one nation reflected a profound ambivalence about the new reality. In Japan, filmmakers like Ozu and Kurosawa expressed it from the viewpoint of a vanquished n...
A Tale of Two Openings
I don’t go to many opening day screenings, and for several reasons: first of all, I hate crowds. Just hate ‘em. Second, I hate today’s movie crowds. Note the caveat: today’s movie crowds tend to talk all through the pi...
The Strange Case of the Vanishing Lady
If good ol’ imdb.com is correct, and you know they never lie, you’ll see that Alfred Hitchcock directed some 65 features. Of those, the first 24 were made in his native Britain, before he and his family moved to California for good. T...
Woody’s World
I like Larry David. I like Woody Allen. So, when I heard that Woody and Larry were teaming up for Whatever Works, I thought: “Why not?” It might not be terrible, given that Woody’s been experiencing something of a renaissanc...
Deep Thoughts about A Serious Man
The Coen brothers have always had two sides: a brainy, Big Questions of Life side, and a playfully ironic side that loves nothing more than a good sight gag. The same guys who brought us Nic Cage chasing a pampers-laden dog and George Clooney dragg...
Wings of Desire: Three Years After
This blog is almost three years old, and although I don’t care to celebrate blog birthdays any more than I do my own, I will note that I uploaded the first post for (what was then) Coosa Creek Mambo on January 1, 2007. It was before I wrote...
Liked the honest and candid movie reviews on your blog. Keep up the good work.
Posted: March 29th, 2008 | More Reviews From srinidhilv | Report This Comment