[3] At this stage of his career, Day-Lewis' total immersion into the characters he plays is legendary. But it was obvious nearly a quarter-century ago when he won his first statuette for playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot [4].
[6] The Flower of My Secret [7] is at heart a traditional "women's picture," but thanks to Almodóvar's unique style it comes off as a minor miracle, both for its heroine and for its writer/director.
[9] It is possible to pinpoint precisely the moment that Steve McQueen became a movie star. It comes in the last 20 minutes of The Great Escape [10]. It's so exciting you can taste it. And you know that the cocky, handsome, volatile actor was a bona fide movie star.
[12] In Nights of Cabiria [13] actress Giulietta Masina and director Federico Fellini give us a funny, beguiling, and heartbreaking examination of innocence that has yet to be surpassed.
[15] Alfred Hitchcock liked to take chances. He took a huge one with The Birds [16], a story about our feathered friends turning homicidal and waging war on humanity with one of his most puzzling endings.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-my-left-foot-1989
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Daniel+Day-Lewis%22+title:%22My+Left+Foot%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-my-left-foot-1989#comments
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-flower-my-secret-1995
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Pedro+Almodovar%22+title:%22Flower+of+My+Secret%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19624#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-great-escape-1963
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22John+Sturges%22+title:%22Great+Escape%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19570#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-nights-cabiria-1957
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Federico+Fellini%22+title:%22Nights+of+Cabiria%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19518#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-birds-1963
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22DVD%22+author:%22Alfred+Hitchcock%22+title:%22Birds%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19513#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=5
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=2
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=3
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=4
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=7
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=8
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=9
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=10
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=42
