Love & Mercy
In the last decade there have been a number of quality biographical films. Always a popular genre with audiences, the biographical genre has always been a bankable contender for Academy… Read more »
Marnie
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most highly regarded and popular filmmakers who ever lived. His aesthetic and narrative tropes are as immediately recognizable signifiers as the music of Bernard… Read more »
Werner Herzog
In 1962, with the issuing of the Oberhausen Manifesto, New German Cinema began. For twenty years a generation of German filmmakers produced small, personal and decidedly nationalist films in response… Read more »
What About Bob?
I have written about the influence of Frank Tashlin before, but in 1990 his influence couldn’t have been more heavily felt than in the films What About Bob? and Clifford… Read more »
The Birdman Of Alcatraz
Of the films John Frankenheimer directed Burt Lancaster in, Birdman Of Alcatraz (1962) is perhaps the one that displays the full array of Burt Lancaster’s scope as an actor. The… Read more »
Lancelot du Lac
The narrative of Lancelot du Lac (1976) is a familiar one. The film begins with the Knights of the Round Table returning from their quest for the Holy Grail in… Read more »
She
King Kong (1933) had been a tremendous sensation when it was first released. Its success and legacy have insured its place as one of the seminal feats in the American… Read more »
Kramer vs. Kramer
In 1979, Columbia Pictures released Robert Benton’s film Kramer Vs. Kramer. Almost immediately the film became a hit, and even garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor,… Read more »
La La Land
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016) is in Oscar heaven with fourteen nominations total. This is equally remarkable as it is unremarkable. The Best Picture winners for the past five… Read more »
Rolling Thunder Revue
The documentary form is never more about truth or fiction than your average feature film. It is just another technique, another “fantasy”, another way of presenting a person, story or… Read more »
