{"id":4168,"date":"2012-01-24T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2012-01-24T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:42:26","slug":"john-guillermin-at-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4168","title":{"rendered":"John Guillermin at Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Rapture1965_BR_b.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2823\" title=\"Rapture1965_BR_b\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Rapture1965_BR_b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Just uploaded are a reviews of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/p2r\/3803_Rapture1965.htm\">Rapture <\/a><\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4156\">M<\/a>] (1965), making its premiere  Blu-ray release via Twilight Time, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/g\/3802_GunsAtBatasi.htm\">Guns at Batasi <\/a><\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4151\">M<\/a>] (1964) from Fox, a still-timely  drama set in an African country trying to assert itself in spite of lingering  effects of British colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p>Both films, alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/b\/2477_BlueMax.htm\">The Blue Max<\/a><\/strong> (1966), were directed by British import John Guillermin, best known as the  actor-friendly co-director of <strong>The  Towering Inferno <\/strong>(1974). That film was his reward for building up a strong  body of work in various genres in film and TV, but it also arrested any chance  of tackling the kind of small dramas with which he excelled.<\/p>\n<p>Both <strong>Rapture<\/strong> and <strong>Batasi<\/strong> feature potent central performances,  and very distinct visual styles, whereas Blue Max demonstrated his knack at  combining drama and first-rate second unit work without sacrificing plotting or  character development.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, <strong>Blue Max<\/strong> us  a cold film with no one particularly likeable, but it has that gorgeous Jerry  Goldsmith score, and some of the finest aerial combat every mounted. While the  new <strong>Red Tails<\/strong> is trying to present  dramatic combat sequences using CGI, <strong>Blue  Max<\/strong> is all real planes, pilots, and daredevil stunts that no CGI artist can  mimic.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rapture<\/strong> also  features remarkable cinematography that goes beyond capturing the stunning Brittany coast. There  are camera moves that astound, montages that pique, and Georges Delerue\u2019s fine  score adds soul to a sometimes flashy camera style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batasi<\/strong> is  memorable for Richard Attenborough\u2019s potent performance, and one can perhaps  presume the issues of colonialism in the script ignited a need for Sir Dickie  to bring broader cause and effects dramas to the big screen, hence the epic,  multi-generational scope of <strong>Gandhi<\/strong> (1982), and the violent racial injustice of apartheid in <strong>Cry Freedom<\/strong> (1987).<\/p>\n<p>Coming very shortly: a review of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/filmsandschedules\/tiffbelllightbox\/2012\/3300001430\" >Dead  Mountaineer\u2019s Hotel<\/a><\/strong> (1979), screening as part of the TIFF Bell  Lightbox\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/filmsandschedules\/tiffbelllightbox\/2012\/4400000438\" >Attack  the Bloc Cold War Sci-Fi series<\/a>, and a review of Ti West\u2019s <strong>The Innkeepers<\/strong> (2011), which will not  disappoint Westonians wanting a good series of measured shocks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of three films British director John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno) made at Twentieth Century-Fox during the 1960s: Guns at Batasi (Fox), Rapture (freshly released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time), and The Blue Max (Fox)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1035,1042,1031,1043,1044,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-15e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}