The Last Movie
“Everybody wants a piece of your birthday cake/Fingers in the frosting, everybody wants to take/if you give an arm you can bet they’re gonna take a leg/living on this world… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Niklashausen Journey
As is often observed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s filmography, consisting of forty feature films, makes it difficult to critically appraise all of his films. Many times films are either over looked… Read more »
Listen To Me Marlon
“Executed in 1966, Double Marlon is a celebration of a male icon. Warhol has placed the double image of Marlon Brando, taken from his highly influential and controversial 1953 movie… Read more »
Captain America: Civil War
This review was first published during the original release of this film. Captain America: Civil War was the most boring spectacle I had ever witnessed on the big screen. My… Read more »
Sissi
In Ardmore, not far from the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, is a video store called Viva Video: The Last Picture Store. This is one of the last proper video stores… Read more »
The Last Bolshevik
Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1992) presents itself as a film about Soviet filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (best known for the feature film Happiness), but if one goes beyond its promotional… Read more »
Mr. Freedom
William Klein came to film from the world of fashion. He had garnered acclaim for both his photographic essays on urban environments and his fashion spreads in numerous magazines long… Read more »
Joker
I saw Todd Phillips’ film Joker (2019) on the same day that Martin Scorsese’s comments on the Marvel/Disney films really started to gain momentum in the press as celebrities began… Read more »
Le Brasier Ardent
When the world gets to a point where it no longer expects to be hit into excitement or tickled into guffaws by every film, when speed isn’t the test of… Read more »
Vivre sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film, Vivre Sa Vie (1962), is a character study manifested in a twelve part tableaux. Anna Karina (Godard’s then wife and muse) plays the lead, Nana, a… Read more »
