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Shadows and Fog (1992)
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No other Woody Allen film has ever been hustled into oblivion faster than this black-and-white mélange of Mittel-European nightmare, absurdist farce, and homage to German expressionism--sort of Woody Allen meets Franz Kafka in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, set to Kurt Weill's score for The Threepenny Opera. Yet the daft experiment is not without charm and, as the title suggests, oodles of atmosphere. In a murky, seriously deranged cityscape only a studio art department could create, a giant bald strangler (Michael Kirby) is going around killing people with piano wire. The authorities are powerless (though he...
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| Shadows and Fog Movie Review by Valerie (8/17/2007) |
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One foggy night. A killer on the loose. A circus in town. A clueless man involved in a plot to catch the killer, but what is the plot?
Not one of Woody Allen's most well-known movies but it's definitely worth a look. First of all, the cinematography is brilliant, the use of black & white gives this movie a very 40's...
(complete Shadows and Fog review by Valerie)
| Shadows and Fog Movie Review by Ezra (2/16/2007) |
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You'd think a Woody Allen film costarring John Malkovich, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates and Madonna would have been more widely seen. But, despite the film's limited audience, it is actually one of Allen's better films, combining his trademark humor with excellent black-and-white cinematography, an outstanding cast and a...
(complete Shadows and Fog review by Ezra)
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