Polanski’s Macbeth
“Anyone with the most rudimentary literary training should be struck by the perverse backwardness of the adaptation-as-betrayal approach: The study of adaptation is clearly a form of source study and… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Pola X
In translating Melville’s novel onto film Carax has found his cinematic footing somewhere between Robert Bresson and André Téchiné. What exploitative qualities that exist in Pola X (1999) simply serve to better… Read more »
Gone Girl
David Fincher is one of those filmmakers whose style has become a commodity unto itself; often imitated, more often admired, and tremendously marketable. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Ridley… Read more »
Burn!
“He (Pontecorvo) has no fucking feeling for people.”-Marlon Brando By the time Marlon Brando signed to star in Burn! (1969) he had starred in a string of box-office flops including… Read more »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
The Coca-Cola Kid
An Australian production, The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) represents Dušan Makavejev’s most traditionally narrative film since Love Affair, or the Case Of The Missing Switchboard Operator (1968) as well as the director’s first… Read more »
Many Rivers To Cross
Film aficionados and critics alike are familiar with the speculation pertaining to homosexual readings of old Hollywood films, before homosexuality was acceptable outside of the closet in the cinema. Kenneth… Read more »
Charlie Wilson’s War
Mike Nichols’ film career as a director has been as long as it is varied. In fact I find many of his films to be either overrated, such as The Graduate… Read more »
Skyfall
Skyfall (2012), is the most popular outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond (directed by Sam Mendes). Mendes is a highly theatrical director whose concerns with character development often manifest… Read more »
Knights Of The Round Table
Although I did not know it at the time, Richard Thorpe is the first director whose career I ever charted as an audience member. And though I cannot find his… Read more »
