Conspirator
Arthur Hornblow Jr. produces this American-British co production with all the trappings of Hollywood prestige that he brought to his earlier screwball comedies. Hornblow Jr.’s films always tend to be… Read more »
Arthur Hornblow Jr. produces this American-British co production with all the trappings of Hollywood prestige that he brought to his earlier screwball comedies. Hornblow Jr.’s films always tend to be… Read more »
When Roland Joffé made The Mission (1986) he was at the height of his power having won tremendous acclaim for his film The Killing Fields (1984). On the basis of… Read more »
There are no midgets in the United States Air Force. – General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) was middle-aged, white liberal Hollywood’s reckoning with the United States’… Read more »
I was pretty excited when I saw that the Criterion Channel would be streaming Buffalo Soldiers (1997) as part of their Black Westerns series. I can remember when this movie… Read more »
Vincent Price excels as Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. Hopkins is a man who exploits the superstitions and faith of East Anglia in order to fulfill his own appetites… Read more »
“We need to get bigger guns; big fucking guns!” goes the mantra of the final act of Tony Maylam’s delightfully schizophrenic genre mash-up Split Second (1992). In this film Kim… Read more »
Any cinephile on social media has seen Nicolas Winding Refn teasing an upcoming 4K Ultra-HD release of Drive (2011). I remember when Drive came out that I didn’t expect it… Read more »
La femme publique (1984) is a film about a woman drawn into two self-destructive relationships with men who are corrupted from within by their vanity and their own hunger for… Read more »
Throughout Abbas Kiarostami’s career he sought emotional and spiritual truths by investigating the cinema on a technical level; dissecting, rearranging, and deconstructing its various technical and philosophical machinations. Ten (2002)… Read more »
There are few things as fierce as Marlene Dietrich in our culture. The persona Dietrich created and Josef von Sternberg curated in the cinema is the stuff of legends. Entire… Read more »