Touch Of Evil
Orson Welles presents himself as an interesting phenomenon of studio era Hollywood. His aggressive and independent methods as a filmmaker are what both brought him his early success and later… Read more »
Orson Welles presents himself as an interesting phenomenon of studio era Hollywood. His aggressive and independent methods as a filmmaker are what both brought him his early success and later… Read more »
By 1983 David Bowie had already achieved international stardom. Between 1976 and 1983 Bowie had released his most critically acclaimed and influential albums: Station To Station (1976), Low (1977), “Heroes”… Read more »
Surviving Desire (1992) deals with the intelligentsia, and the inherent problems of a relationship between an older man and a younger woman. However, Hartley’s older man, Jude (Martin Donovan), isn’t so… Read more »
Who is Catwoman? In the Batman Comics, she’s a femme fatale, wielding a whip, always changing allegiances, yet always flirting with her romantic interest that would otherwise be her nemesis…. Read more »
Born on September 9th, 1894, Arthur Freed would be destined to lead one of the most remarkable lives in Hollywood history. For a decade spanning 1929 to 1939, Freed worked… Read more »
Of the four films I have seen by Barbet Schroeder, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974) is certainly the most interesting and memorable. The three other films by… Read more »
No matter how proven Samuel Beckett may be in the arena of the theater, his single attempt at filmmaking remains somewhat stunted by the medium of film itself. To recreate… Read more »
I have few vivid memories of my grandfather. One of them is of going to a small carnival in the woods out near his home in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania. I… Read more »
I remember the first time that I journeyed to south Florida. All I really knew about Florida before making the trip came from Norman Mailer’s book Miami & The Siege of… Read more »
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009) won the Jury Prize at Cannes and received almost exclusively rave reviews upon its initial release. Fish Tank utilizes contemporary cinematic tactics such as a… Read more »