The Cassandra Crossing
It was about twenty years ago that our local Hollywood Video went out of business. When they had their liquidation sale my father bought their copy of The Cassandra Crossing… Read more »
It was about twenty years ago that our local Hollywood Video went out of business. When they had their liquidation sale my father bought their copy of The Cassandra Crossing… Read more »
As a spiritual sequel to the tremendous success of The Flame And The Arrow (1950) Burt Lancaster made The Crimson Pirate (1952). Robert Siodmak directs the film, re-teaming with Lancaster… Read more »
There are no midgets in the United States Air Force. – General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) was middle-aged, white liberal Hollywood’s reckoning with the United States’… Read more »
I first heard about this little gem of a film from watching Mark Rappaport’s Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997). Desert Fury (1947) is a queer, hard as nails melodrama… Read more »
Because The Train is being made available again, but in a new 4K scan from Kino-Lorber, I thought I’d brush off this piece from 2012. In 1963 John Frankenheimer took… Read more »
All My Sons (1948) is Edward G. Robinson’s movie. The story may be Arthur Miller’s, the script may be Chester Erskine’s, but this film belongs to Robinson. He brings his… Read more »
The cinema of Robert Altman is unique in the history of American filmmaking. More than any other director, Robert Altman has been able to apply his style to every genre… Read more »
Burt Lancaster would have been 107 years old on November 2nd. So I thought I would revisit one of my late father’s favorite films starring Lancaster, The Devil’s Disciple (1959)…. Read more »
Director Fred Zinnemann is one of a handful of German directors, including Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk and Robert Siodmak, who relocated to Hollywood in the thirties. In terms of political… Read more »
Last Friday I had tea with my buddy Neal to discuss programming a series of Czech New Wave films. Chatting away, two content cinephiles, the subject of Frank Perry came… Read more »