The Dark Knight Rises
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 »
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 »
Murnau, Lang, and Weine are three of the most world renowned German Filmmakers of all time. It was at the dawn of the 1920s that Germany experienced a renaissance of… Read more »
The evolution of camera language in the cinema is constantly at work. Either the camera itself is changing or the style and idea of frame is changing. Festen (1998) is… Read more »
It’s typical for war films from any country or region that the film would paint “their” side as heroic and selfless. The issue here is that war films present a… Read more »