House of games

New on Flickhead:

“Chabrol’s fragments of plot…levitate as a cloud moving over a veiled critique of human foibles, where love is indefinable and uncertain.” Just out on DVD from New Yorker Video, Rien ne va plus (a.k.a. The Swindle, 1997). Read the review now on Flickhead

A translation of Claude Chabrol’s thumbnail critiques of Robert Aldrich, John Brahm, Edward Dmytryk, Phillip Dunne, Martin Ritt, and William Wyler from the Dec63/Jan64 special “American Cinema” issue of Cahiers du Cinema at My Gleanings.