Twilight’s Last Gleaming
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 »
Buffalo Soldiers
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 »
Witchfinder General
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 »
Split Second
“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 »
Drive
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
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 »
10 On Ten
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 »
The Scarlet Empress
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 »
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 »
Tomorrow Is Forever
`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 »
