Not having seen “Doubt” on the stage, and having read some reviews of the play that laud it over the film and remarks on some differences, I feel at a disadvantage discussing the film, but as John Patrick Shanley, the author, also directed the film, unless he privately changed the motivations of his characters during [...]
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“Let’s watch The Time Machine,” I’ve been encouraging H.o.p. for a couple of weeks, and he always declined, intent instead on working on his projects, not wanting to be distracted despite the fact it was directed by animator and special effects artist George Pal. Which surprised me as he loved Pal’s “War of the [...]
Return to the Zeiglers
Cut to the outside of Zeigler’s house. Then to the inside, Bill walking Zeigler’s assistant down the same hall in which he’d entered for the party. The decorations are still up in the area with the stairway, though only the Christmas tree and the cascade of white lights are lit. [...]
Revisiting Marion Nathanson
Exterior shot of Harford’s apartment building at night, much the same as when we first saw the building. Inside, Bill is returning home, he goes toward the living room, his daughter calling her greetings. He goes into the dining room where his wife and daughter are at the table and asks [...]
Nick Nightingale’s Hotel
Fade in on the street. Bill emerging from a taxi (7P94), returning to the Sonata Cafe which is closed and gated. The ad on top of the cab reads DKNY EYES. We see behind the earlier sewing thread sign and that above it the building reads Thread Mills. People [...]
Somerton
Cut to Bill in a cab crossing a bridge. Again, he is thinking about Alice with the Naval officer.
A rear shot of the cab (7M96 license plate) passing under a Happy Holiday string of lights.
We are seemingly fairly deep in a forested area. Trees dissolve over Bill’s face. The cab approaches a [...]
Bill Tempted by Domino
Cut to the street and Bill walking down it, a Mexican Cafe and Dry Cleaners in the background.
A pizza shop. Cars passing. The streets are wet. He looks at a woman and man passionately kissing next to a green shop, a Santa in the window behind them and a closed [...]
The Naval Officer
Cut to black. The waltz again. Then an elevator door opening and Bill, in his suit, exiting it and entering his office. An employee greets him not by his name but by “Doctor” and hands him a note from behind a long, elegantly styled, and highly polished wood counter. [...]
First off, it’s not my intention to provide an overall meaning for the film, what actually happened. What I’m doing is taking into consideration the invitation to the end of the rainbow (which seems to have been largely ignored by most who write on it) and riffing on that, introducing the possibility of [...]
The exterior of the lodge again, immersed in darkness. We are deep in the watery blue gloom of winter. The image is the same as opened the Wednesday section, only further removed. The same lights shine in the left and right wings of the lodge.
Cut to the storeroom in which Jack is [...]