Treasure Hunt
I remember the first time that I saw Noah Baumbach’s Kicking And Screaming (1995). I became all excited when Carlos Jacott is at the airport carrying a framed one-sheet for… Read more »
I remember the first time that I saw Noah Baumbach’s Kicking And Screaming (1995). I became all excited when Carlos Jacott is at the airport carrying a framed one-sheet for… Read more »
`Woman, disturb me not now at the last,But let me hold my purpose till I die.Sit down again; mark me and understand,While I have power to speak. I charge you now,When… Read more »
Starcrash (1978) is probably exactly what one would expect from a Roger Corman produced Star Wars (1977) knock-off; it’s cheap, campy, gaudy, and hilarious. Since I first saw this film… Read more »
Claire Denis’ has given us some of the best films about French colonialism in Africa. Chocolat (1988), her directorial debut, inaugurates her career long investigation into what imperialism meant and… Read more »
People talk about Rio Bravo (1959) being one of the great “hang out” movies of all time, but, for me, Portrait Of Jason (1967) totally eclipses Rio Bravo in that… Read more »
Latitude Zero (1969) is my kind of special effects movie; every effect is practical. I grew up watching Stingray (1964) so these sorts of model heavy effects from the sixties… Read more »
One often hears rock musicals criticized for being nothing more but a loose thread of a plot stringing together a series of disparate music videos. Of course this isn’t always… Read more »
Prime Cut (1972) opens in Kansas with a montage following the progress that a cow makes from the barn to the burger packing machine. Then, we following the “excess” meat… Read more »
Few filmmakers are even half as prolific as Takashi Miike. For that reason alone you have to respect him as a filmmaker. Miike has tried his hand at every genre,… Read more »
L’Eden et après (1970) is the first of two films Alain Robbe-Grillet made from the same footage; the other being N. Took The Dice (1971). Both films tell the same… Read more »