The Big Trail
“Give a man a free hand and he’ll try to put it all over you.”-Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh is one of the big names in studio-era Westerns, often appearing alongside… Read more »
The Freethinker
Peter Watkins made a career out of deconstructing genres, employing reflexive tactics, advocating a freer media, and reinterpreting film language with a number of groundbreaking and epically experimental films. In… Read more »
Rendez-vous
Rendez-vous (1986) is relatively early in both Juliette Binoche and Andre Téchiné’s careers. Binoche had yet to develop the kind of kinetic energy she would while working with Leos Carax… Read more »
Hail, Caesar!
The allure of Joel and Ethan Cohen’s films elude me. To me, they are akin to Steven Spielberg, but for “clever” people. Their 2016 homage to big studio Hollywood, Hail,… Read more »
Foxfire
Foxfire (1996) is one of those rare films about teenagers that manages to imbue a well worn genre with heart and social relevance. The film is ostensibly an adaptation of… Read more »
Edge Of The City
On the surface Edge Of The City (1957) may appear to be just another “white liberal” Hollywood production from the fifties but from the vantage point of 2020, and in… Read more »
Hearts Of Darkness
In the early seventies, John Milius adapted Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness into the screenplay that would famously be made into Apocalypse Now (1979). Twelve years after the theatrical release of Apocalypse Now, Fax… Read more »
The Lucifer Rising Suite
An impressive release from the re-issue frenzy of the late 2000s is the boxed set The Lucifer Rising Suite: The Music Of Bobby Beausoleil. Released by The Ajna Offensive in 2009… Read more »
True Romance
It always surprises me how well Tony Scott’s style as a director suits Quentin Tarantino’s script for True Romance (1993). Scott imbues every scene, action sequences and otherwise, with such… Read more »
The Great Silence
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »
