Heaven Can Wait
Before making his masterpiece Reds (1981), Warren Beatty produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Compared to the histrionics… Read more »
Before making his masterpiece Reds (1981), Warren Beatty produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Compared to the histrionics… Read more »
Peter Hyams’ film The Presidio (1988) opens with a murder on an army base in San Francisco and then proceeds into a full blown car chase. Hyams directs the chase… Read more »
Hoosiers (1986), with its sentimentality and saccharine characterizations, wrote the book on the contemporary sports drama. Every subsequent “feel-good” sports flick, from Remember The Titans (2000) to Friday Night Lights… Read more »
While You Were Sleeping (1995) is one of those films from the “golden age” of romantic comedies that adapted the farcical plotting of screwball comedies for the nineties by populating… Read more »
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) tells the story of the obsessive Captain, Commander Richardson (Clark Gable), who assumes command of Lt. Bledsoe’s (Burt Lancaster) submarine to exact revenge on a… 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 »
Shampoo (1975), unlike Hal Ashby’s earlier films The Last Detail (1973) and Harold and Maude (1971), lacks the presence of any literal physical death. Instead, the film focuses on a… Read more »
On the surface Edge Of The City (1957) may appear to be just another “white liberal” Hollywood production from the fifties but from the vantage point of 2020, and in… Read more »