{"id":1285,"date":"2014-06-20T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:12:58","slug":"the-daytime-panic-in-the-streets-of-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"The daytime panic in the streets of Mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Day for Night<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1973)<\/p>\n

French melodrama\u00a0Je Vous Pr\u00e9sente Pam\u00e9la <\/i>stars an older screen legend, a younger sex symbol, and a British actress (Jacqueline Bissett). During filming, the cast and crew\u00a0wish the interminable, troubled shoot would end.<\/p>\n

In a charming bit of camera winking meta narrative, the director, Francois Truffaut, plays Ferrand, the director of the film within the film.<\/p>\n

Before directing the seminal French New Wave film, The 400 Blows <\/em>(1959). Truffaut began his career as a film critic, developing\u00a0the\u00a0auteur theory<\/a>, which positioned the director as the primary artistic engine in the filmmaking process.<\/p>\n

This love letter to the collaborative process of movie making, challenges his theory.\u00a0Rather than the product of a deeply personal vision of a singular director, Je Vous Pr\u00e9sente Pam\u00e9la\u00a0<\/i>is the result of an unpredictable collaboration, the director’s vision filtered through fights over actor motivation and budgets.<\/p>\n

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Panic in the Streets<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1950)<\/p>\n

When Kochak is killed by gangster Blackie (Jack Palance), the coroner finds elements of bacteria in his blood and realizes Kochak was carrying \u201cpneumonic plague.\u201d \u00a0The film becomes a mad dash to identify his murderers to avoid a pandemic.<\/p>\n

Palance was nominated for an\u00a0Academy Award for his work in Shane<\/em> (1953)<\/a>\u00a0forty years before he won for his work as Curly Washburn<\/a>.\u00a0 He played Fidel Castro<\/a>\u00a0in Che!\u00a0<\/em>(1969)\u00a0and had a small role in Tim Burton\u2019s Batman<\/em> (1989), but\u00a0he\u2019s most famous for his impromptu one-handed push-ups at the 64th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

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