La vie est un roman
La vie est un roman (1983) opens in 1914, just before the outbreak of WWI. Count Forbek (Ruggero Raimondi) has assembled his closest friends, a collective of France’s most esteemed… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Eureka
Nicolas Roeg’s death at age 90 can’t really be called a surprise, but the loss is still great. Personally, Roeg was one of my first “filmmaker heroes”. The first DVD… Read more »
Frances Ha
It was while working on Greenberg (2010) that writer/director Noah Baumbach began his relationship with Greta Gerwig. Subsequently, the pair penned the screenplay for Frances Ha (2012) together, with Gerwig… Read more »
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven
Even today there still remains a relative void of criticism surrounding latter day Soviet Cinema available in English. For the most part critical discussions of Russian cinema during the late… Read more »
Reflections In A Golden Eye
“Why make it sad to be gay? Doing your thing is O.K. Our bodies are our own so leave us alone. Go play with yourself-today.” – John Lennon, The Gay… Read more »
X-Men: Apocalypse
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse is not about a dystopian future, but rather how the X-Men manage to avert… Read more »
1900
Bernardo Bertolucci’s death so soon after Nicolas Roeg’s clearly signified the passing of an era of filmmaking. 1900 was the first Bertolucci film that I ever saw. I was given… Read more »
The Love Witch
Superficially, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016) may seem like nothing more than a pastiche; some cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out (1968)… Read more »
Maidstone
1969, Norman Mailer runs for mayor of New York City and loses. A few months later, Mailer journeys to the Hamptons with a film crew and entourage to produce his… Read more »
Johnny Staccato
If you are like me and you enjoy Frank Kane’s or Howard Norman’s gumshoe novels then you’ll probably get into Johnny Staccato. Otherwise, Johnny Staccato is pretty unremarkable as a… Read more »
