The Grand Budapest Hotel
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 »
Roman Poems
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 »
The Coca-Cola Kid
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 »
Many Rivers To Cross
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 »
Charlie Wilson’s War
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
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 »
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 »
Henry Fool
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 »
Emotion Pictures
Wim Wenders’ book Emotion Pictures (published in Germany in 1986) is an anthology of both his previously unpublished writings and his work for Filmkritik, written between 1968 and 1971.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 »
Hitchcock
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 »
