Archive for category: by Robert C. Cumbow
5 January, 2009 (00:30) | Essays, Film Reviews, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow
[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is currently reissuing a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. Author Robert Cumbow is a member of the Parallax View collective and his essays are being published simultaneously on Parallax View. The essay below was first published on 11/05/2008, [...]
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone | No comments
24 November, 2008 (00:30) | Directors, Essays, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow
[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is currently reissuing a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. Author Robert C. Cumbow is a member of the Parallax View collective and his essays are being published simultaneously on Parallax View. The essay below was first published on [...]
Tags: Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Dune, Eraserhead, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart | 1 comment
27 October, 2008 (00:15) | Directors, Essays, Film Reviews, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow
[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is currently reissuing a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. Author Robert C. Cumbow is a member of the Parallax View collective and his essays are being published simultaneously on Parallax View. The essay below was first published on [...]
Tags: Birth, Jonathan Glazer, Stanley Kubrick | 1 comment
22 October, 2008 (00:43) | Film music, Horror, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow
In the spirit of the Halloween season, here’s a list of 13 movie scores that stand out as landmarks in the honorable tradition of writing music designed to scare the pants off the movie viewer.
13. Jaws, John Williams, 1975.
Any responsible list of scary movie music has to acknowledge the achievement of John Williams and Stephen [...]
Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, John Carpenter | 3 comments
3 October, 2008 (00:01) | Essays, Film Reviews, Orson Welles, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow
[Editor's note: This essay was originally written in 1998, before the re-edited version from producer Rick Schmidlin and editor Walter Murch, and is based on the 109-minute version that was rescued from the vaults in 1975, generally known as the "preview version. This version had replaced the original 98-minute theatrical version in retrospective screenings and [...]
Tags: Touch of Evil | 1 comment
29 September, 2008 (00:18) | Directors, Essays, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow
[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is currently reissuing a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. Author Bob Cumbow is a member of the Parallax View collective and his essays are being published simultaneously on Parallax View. The essay below was first published on 11/26/2005, [...]
Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman | No comments