A Better Tomorrow
If one hasn’t seen many Heroic Bloodshed films from the eighties and nineties one probably has the impression that these films are low-brow entertainment, but there is more here than… Read more »
If one hasn’t seen many Heroic Bloodshed films from the eighties and nineties one probably has the impression that these films are low-brow entertainment, but there is more here than… Read more »
I have seen a number of blockbusters this Autumn. Some were decent, some were terrible. But each was indicative of the state of American cinema today in its own way…. Read more »
I first encountered Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls at a friend’s house in high school (probably between 2005 and 2007). We had just finished swimming and were relaxing poolside… Read more »
All My Sons (1948) is Edward G. Robinson’s movie. The story may be Arthur Miller’s, the script may be Chester Erskine’s, but this film belongs to Robinson. He brings his… Read more »
Queen of the Desert (2015) isn’t Werner Herzog’s best film, but it certainly isn’t his worst either. The critical reception of this beautifully mounted Gertrude Bell biopic comes as a… Read more »
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) is one of a handful of films that defined the public’s notion of the MGM musical. The essential ingredients at work here can be… Read more »
David Fincher’s second film The Game (1997) works better as an investigation of the psychological effects of what is essentially a mid-life crisis than it does as a thriller. The most… Read more »
Winston Churchill’s favorite film was That Hamilton Woman (1941). Directed by Alexander Korda, the film exhibits all of the Romantic militarism and blind nationalism one would expect from a film… Read more »
There’s a certain point into the editing process of a film when everything you do with the intention of making the narrative work just seems to confuse the whole thing. … Read more »
John Cassavetes is a filmmaker noted for his films with naturalistic acting, kinetic camera movements, and an emphasis on behaviorism over narrative motivation, and for being one of the first… Read more »