Rancho Notorious
“Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.”-Fritz Lang Rancho Notorious (1952) is not unique in its inversion of the traditional female role in Westerns. Nicholas Ray’s Johnny… Read more »
“Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.”-Fritz Lang Rancho Notorious (1952) is not unique in its inversion of the traditional female role in Westerns. Nicholas Ray’s Johnny… Read more »
In The Mood For Love (2001) continues director Wong Kar-wai’s preoccupation with emotions unexpressed and love gone unconsummated. Of all of Wong Kar-wai’s feature films, In The Mood For Love best… Read more »
Todd Haynes brings a sense of dread and helplessness to every image in Dark Waters (2019). The film is virtually a master class in pacing and composition, marking another stage… Read more »
George Marshall is perhaps best remembered for directing the James Stewart comedies Destry Rides Again (1939) and Pot O’ Gold (1941). Marshall’s career as a film director spanned over fifty years, and made… Read more »
As with Taxi Driver (1976), screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese collaborated on the 1999 film Bringing Out The Dead. Similarly to Taxi Driver, Bringing Out The Dead follows its male lead as… Read more »
French Spiritualist philosopher Henri Bergson outlined two types of human memory. The first is Motor Mechanism, when a person purposefully memorizes a text or moment. The second is involuntary memory,… Read more »
Hot on the heels of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Dillinger follows the formula almost exactly. The main difference is in the style of Milius’ telling of John Dillinger’s story. Milius colors… Read more »
Leos Carax’s film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) is pure Romanticism, as naïve as it is visually stunning, often suspending all believability and reality in favor of sequences that are representative… Read more »
If COVID-19 or police oppression has got you down and you’re in need of some frivolous escapism, if you find yourself in the mood for a saccharine adventure film, look… Read more »
I don’t know if I liked The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) as much as I liked Jonestown: The Life & Death of The People’s Temple (2006). Stanley… Read more »