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Gone Girl
David Fincher is one of those filmmakers whose style has become a commodity unto itself; often imitated, more often admired, and tremendously marketable. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Ridley… Read more »
David Fincher is one of those filmmakers whose style has become a commodity unto itself; often imitated, more often admired, and tremendously marketable. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Ridley… Read more »
“For at least two years I have felt ready to make some theoretical statements about film language in relation to the ‘Underground’ film. A problem which has held me up… Read more »
“He (Pontecorvo) has no fucking feeling for people.”-Marlon Brando By the time Marlon Brando signed to star in Burn! (1969) he had starred in a string of box-office flops including… Read more »
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
Pier Paolo Pasolini occupies a unique place in 20th century Italian art; he was both a filmmaker and a painter, but foremost he was a poet. When he rarely appeared… Read more »
An Australian production, The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) represents Dušan Makavejev’s most traditionally narrative film since Love Affair, or the Case Of The Missing Switchboard Operator (1968) as well as the director’s first… Read more »
Film aficionados and critics alike are familiar with the speculation pertaining to homosexual readings of old Hollywood films, before homosexuality was acceptable outside of the closet in the cinema. Kenneth… Read more »
Mike Nichols’ film career as a director has been as long as it is varied. In fact I find many of his films to be either overrated, such as The Graduate… Read more »
Skyfall (2012), is the most popular outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond (directed by Sam Mendes). Mendes is a highly theatrical director whose concerns with character development often manifest… Read more »
Although I did not know it at the time, Richard Thorpe is the first director whose career I ever charted as an audience member. And though I cannot find his… Read more »