“She was bad. She was dangerous. I wouldn’t trust her any further than I could throw her. But, she was my kind of woman.” -Rod Riley (Fred Astaire) in the ‘Girl Hunt’ ballet, The Band Wagon Happy Valentine’s Day! And what better day to celebrate femme fatales, those sinuous, cold-hearted, duplicitous sirens who lead hardboiled […]
The Education of an American: ‘Dodsworth’ (1936)
I’ve been doing things myself for a long time now, and I thought I’d give things a chance to do something to me. Dodsworth is a sensitive, superlative look at love, life and marriage. It’s also a neglected classic about an American abroad. After decades managing his automobile empire Samuel Dodsworth (Walter Huston) retires, setting […]