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Beginning Film Studies
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Charlie Chaplin, Director
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Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema s consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized...
Frank Wisbar: The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) in Movies
Jul 2, 2020
One of those examples of a virtually perfect movie: an incredibly economical script with immaculate storytelling is brought to the screen with immensely charismatic performances by the three leads (you watch it now and it's genuinely baffling that none of them had more substantial movie careers). Also a fascinating mixture of old-style and new Hollywood - scenes pastiching the style of Howard Hawks movies sit alongside genuinely provocative moments like the ice cream scene. Overall, though, just a tremendously enjoyable action film, and exhibit A for the case that John Carpenter did his career backwards.