Dark Waters
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 »
Houdini
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 »
Bringing Out The Dead
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 »
Last Year At Marienbad
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 »
Dillinger
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 »
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
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 »
A Bear Named Winnie
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 »
The Black Panthers
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 »
Fando Y Lis
Intuition is responsible for a majority of the most fascinating works of art ever created. Throughout the ages artists have made decisions concerning their work in direct response to their… Read more »
Trois couleurs: Bleu
I am not going to comment on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Bleu in the greater context of Les Trois Couleurs. I prefer to assess one film at a time as a stand alone piece… Read more »
