Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
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
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
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
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 »
The Game
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 »
That Hamilton Woman
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 »
All The Real Girls
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 »
Too Late Blues
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 »
Nobody’s Fool
“You’re a man among men” – Toby Roebuck (Melanie Griffith in Nobody’s Fool) People don’t really talk about great Thanksgiving Day movies. There’s so much fuss over Halloween, and Christmas… Read more »
Marvin & Tige
By the early eighties, John Cassavetes was taking roles in mainstream American films again. The number of films he starred in between 1977 and 1985 that were made by other… Read more »
