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Dave Kehr did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago, where he studied English. He learned French in part to read Cahiers du cinéma. At the time the university did not have a film studies curriculum. He started writing on film for The Maroon, the student newspaper, when he was president of the film society, Doc Films. [1]
In his review of the DVD release of Fort Apache in 2012, The New York Times movie critic Dave Kehr called it "one of the great achievements of classical American cinema, a film of immense complexity that never fails to reveal new shadings with each viewing" and "among the first 'pro-Indian' Westerns" in its portrayal of indigenous Americans ...
Dave Kehr from the Chicago Reader wrote in 1985: "This intense Freudian melodrama by Otto Preminger (1953) is one of the forgotten masterworks of film noir... The film is a disturbingly cool, rational investigation of the terrors of sexuality...The sets, characters, and actions are extremely stylized, yet Preminger's moving camera gives them a ...
The film received primarily positive reviews although many contended that the film was so sentimental that details were lost. In The New York Times , film critic Dave Kehr wrote that the film was, "not a pernicious film, but simply one that tugs too tenaciously at the heartstrings."
[it] isn't a detective movie or a standard crime thriller, which helps support the notion that film noir is a style and not a genre. It's one of the best noirs around." [22] Dave Kehr from Chicago Reader wrote in a glowing review that the film "is pervaded by [Rossen’s] guilty-liberal fascination with power and money." And continued by saying ...
In 2013, Dave Kehr (also of the Times) wrote that Moontide "provides an illuminating link to one of the frequently overlooked sources of noir: the movement known as 'poetic realism', which flourished in France from the mid-1930s until the onslaught of war...a rootless, hard-drinking French sailor, Bobo (Gabin), achieves a tentative domesticity ...
Variety ' s review called it a "moderately exciting melodrama" that spends too much time on the police procedural aspects. [1] Time Out described it as "more brutal, sadistic and threatening" than The Killers. [2] Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader called it "a major B movie by one of Hollywood's most accomplished craftsmen". [3]
Dave Kehr's review in the Chicago Reader of Something for the Boys suggests that despite the promise of a Cole Porter soundtrack and a star-studded cast, including Carmen Miranda, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, and Perry Como, the film fails to be as entertaining as expected. Kehr points out that the musical has its moments, but it does not ...