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The Third Man
Film Review October 21, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: A true classic, The Third Man was ranked 57 on the AFI’s list of the top 100 films. Based on a story by Graham Greene, the movie is a noir...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Carol Reed. Starring: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and Alida Valli..."
Awake
Film Review December 7, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: The phenomenon of "anesthetic awareness," in which the patient is fully conscious yet physically paralyzed during surgery, is grist for this psychological thriller.  
by Marc Savlov
"...I suspect there's a corker of a Columbo episode tucked away behind Christensen's oh-dear-God-i-can-feel-the-scalpel hysterics, but it's shrouded in a pall of such outrageous medical malfeasance – not to mention familial greed, larceny, and the fact that Peter Falk is no longer with us – that you wonder why this rich kid didn't just opt for a black-market heart, à la Turistas, as his mother had suggested. With a running time of 78 minutes, Awake is relatively painless, playing a little like a lesser story from one of EC Comics Shock SuspenStories – or a lot like Joseph Cotten's "Breakdown" episode of Alfred Hitchock Presents – updated for the Fangoria generation..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review January 18, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: There are hints of a meaty complexity to Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons beyond its doomed-love motif, but the 88-minutes-long film, while striking, is too brief to really explore all that it hints at.
"...THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942)D: Orson Welles; with Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Richard Bennett, Erskine Sanford...."
Gaslight
Film Review June 8, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Charles Boyer plays a man who tries, quite successfully, to drive his wife mad (hence, giving birth to the colloquial expression of “gaslighting” someone). Bergman won an Oscar for her...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: George Cukor. Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury..."
October Previews
Screens Story September 10, 1999
"...D: Carol Reed; with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard...."
Shadow of a Doubt
Film Review August 19, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Universal Hitchcock Series: What happens when a girl discovers her beloved Uncle Charlie is not really the avuncular type? Hitchcock here slices into the heart of Americana and exposes its...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey and Hume Cronyn..."
The Summer Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 12, 1998
"...D: George Cukor; with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury...."
Scanlines
Screens Story March 13, 1998
"...with Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead..."
The Magnificent Ambersons
Film Review
Description: Welles' Amberson family saga about class differences in America is based on Booth Tarkington's novel. Though this was Welles' follow-up to Citizen Kane, the final cut of the film was...
"...Directed by: Orson Welles. Starring: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter and Agnes Moorehead..."
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