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Knights Of The Round Table
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 »
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 »
Since his debut, Unbelievable Truth (1989), Hal Hartley has made consistently challenging films about the disruption of daily life, love and loss, emotion versus intellect, and societal outsiders. All of… Read more »
Wim Wenders’ book Emotion Pictures (published in Germany in 1986) is an anthology of both his previously unpublished writings and his work for Filmkritik, written between 1968 and 1971. Like… Read more »
One always hopes that while watching a film, one experiences a sort of revelation as a result of some cinematic innovation, at least from a critical perspective. But in the… Read more »
Sam Green and Bill Siegel’s The Weather Underground (2002) represents something unique in almost all American political documentaries, the convincing illusion of objectivity. Part of this may be accounted for by… Read more »
The history of the cinema is replete with instances in which filmmakers have gone to extravagant lengths to establish a credible realism. The most extreme ventures of this sort often… Read more »
In Fritz Kiersch’s Tuff Turf (1985), James Spader’s character Morgan is relentlessly terrorized by gang leader Nick (Paul Mones), when Nick’s girlfriend Richie (Kim Richards) begins to fall for Spader…. Read more »
Mike Figgis’ Internal Affairs (1990) works within a sado-masochistic complex. Ray Avilla (Andy Garcia) is an Internal Affairs officer obsessed with putting away Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a maniacal policeman…. Read more »
By 1968, John Cassavetes had completed his fourth film Faces after three years of production. It was then, and is now, one of the seminal works of American filmmaking. It… Read more »
In 1998 Whit Stillman released his third film The Last Days Of Disco. Like his previous two films (Metropolitan and Barcelona), The Last Days Of Disco centers on a group… Read more »