Hail, Caesar!
The allure of Joel and Ethan Cohen’s films elude me. To me, they are akin to Steven Spielberg, but for “clever” people. Their 2016 homage to big studio Hollywood, Hail,… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Foxfire
Foxfire (1996) is one of those rare films about teenagers that manages to imbue a well worn genre with heart and social relevance. The film is ostensibly an adaptation of… Read more »
Edge Of The City
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 »
Hearts Of Darkness
In the early seventies, John Milius adapted Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness into the screenplay that would famously be made into Apocalypse Now (1979). Twelve years after the theatrical release of Apocalypse Now, Fax… Read more »
True Romance
It always surprises me how well Tony Scott’s style as a director suits Quentin Tarantino’s script for True Romance (1993). Scott imbues every scene, action sequences and otherwise, with such… Read more »
The Great Silence
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
I find Richard Linklater’s films to be pretty hit or miss. I really cherish The “Before” Trilogy and have appreciated Dazed And Confused (1993), The Newton Boys (1998), and Bernie… Read more »
Even Dwarfs Started Small
From The Unholy Three to The Terror Of Tiny Town and beyond, “little people” have always had a place in the cinema. Perhaps the most unusual of films to predominantly feature “little… Read more »
Conversation Piece
Born to the Italian nobility in 1906, Visconti would be given the highest form of education as well as a wealth of experiences before directing his first feature Obsession in 1943. … Read more »
A Girl Is A Gun
“In art there is only artifice“-Luc Moullet When one thinks of the American West one may recall the vistas of John Ford, prints by Mort Künstler, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood,… Read more »
