Sunday Matinee (Nov. 2 - Nov. 8)

Not half the price, just half the work.

This coming week at Screen Savour: I hope to have reviews posted for three more Hitchcock films and perhaps the first installment of my Best-Since-2000 series, which has been on hold. I'm also hoping to debut a new feature either this week or next that will include capsule reviews of contemporary features to which I cannot devote, because of time and content, 700 to 1,000 words.

So without further ado...

• Hey, check out Farzan's new digs.

• Two trusted names, Tony at Cinema Viewfinder and Nick at Fataculture, give a split decision to The Boy in Striped Pajamas (Pyjamas to the rest of the world).

• Coleman's Corner looks at The Night of the Hunter, and calls it, as only he can, "the unsettlingly haunting, most exquisitely choreographed, sumptuously crafted, pristinely elemental and the most thematically tunicate filmic Gothic cinematic Expressionist picture belonging to the talkie era."

• As part of the Famous Firsts series at Ferdy on Films, Roderick Heath pens a must-read academic essay in response to Laura Mulvey's observation that "Citizen Kane explicitly invites us to figure out its puzzle but it also constantly frustrates that desire."

• I encourage you to click on over to The Dancing Image and scroll through the films in his political film festival, now collected in a single place so you can easily access a review if you've missed it. Also, be sure to check out the review of The Magnificent Ambersons, which is in the queue of my DVR and waiting to be watched.

• More strong reviews of Synecdoche, New York this week, including Christopher Orr's at The New Republic.

• A letter writer to Roger Ebert attempts to explain why he's never fawned over Martin Scorsese.

• Considering the history of the third movie in a trilogy falling perilously short of the first two, James Berardinelli thinks Christopher Nolan shouldn't make a third Batman film. Your thoughts?

• New Pixar movie trailer.

And in case you've never seen them...

This week on Turner Classic Movies:
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Nov 10
• Strangers on a Train (1951), Nov 12
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Nov 13
• Rear Window (1954), Nov 14
• Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Nov 15
• Paths of Glory (1957), Nov 15
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Nov 15
• Foreign Correspondent (1940), Nov 16