Lilith
Robert Rossen is best known for having written and directed All The King’s Men, Alexander The Great and The Hustler. But little is written of his final feature, the intimate… Read more »
Tag: 1960s
The Unforgiven
Ethan Edwards and Ben Zachary are not as akin as one may first perceive, they are as point counter point as the superstars who depict them, John Wayne as Edwards… 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 »
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 »
Mr. Freedom
William Klein came to film from the world of fashion. He had garnered acclaim for both his photographic essays on urban environments and his fashion spreads in numerous magazines long… Read more »
Vivre sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film, Vivre Sa Vie (1962), is a character study manifested in a twelve part tableaux. Anna Karina (Godard’s then wife and muse) plays the lead, Nana, a… Read more »
The Saragossa Manuscript
There are as many variations upon narrative form as there are filmmakers. Few have been able to construct films that sustain a narrative whose story arcs and plot points are… Read more »
Reflections In A Golden Eye
“Why make it sad to be gay? Doing your thing is O.K. Our bodies are our own so leave us alone. Go play with yourself-today.” – John Lennon, The Gay… Read more »
