Movie Diary 7/4/2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by roberthorton

The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962). Periodic re-visit. I wrote at length here.

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956). Seeing this movie 40 years ago, it played as comedy of the grotesque; now it seems more serious, even with all its absurdity. Carroll Baker is great in it.

Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984). Philip Baker Hall in a career-changing performance as Nixon, an inspired one-man tour de force that Altman visualizes in an ingenious way.

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