Popeye
American vaudeville meets Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) in Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980). Every character that touches on the central narrative of the film is played with a life that extends… Read more »
American vaudeville meets Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967) in Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980). Every character that touches on the central narrative of the film is played with a life that extends… Read more »
I grew up with Midnight Run (1988) on VHS. I didn’t like Midnight Run as much as Clifford (1994) or The Lonely Guy (1984) and it wasn’t as comforting as… Read more »
The concept of the Jungle Queen predates Tarzan of the Apes by roughly eight years with William Henry Hudson’s Green Mansions‘ publication in 1904. In 1938 Fiction House immortalized the… Read more »
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
Every fifty years an evil cat spirit returns to find a host to exact revenge against the Cheung family, the chosen guardians of humanity against this diabolical feline phantom. The… Read more »
There are two things that really define Bob Fosse as a filmmaker to me. The first is his sense of montage whose rhythms and rhymes are as effective as they… Read more »
Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983) treats the political theater of the French Reign Of Terror as the Theater of Cruelty, condemning the oppression of the Polish Solidarity movement by the Soviet… Read more »
Bruce Springsteen’s songs from his albums Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ through Born To Run tell the stories of teenagers, New Jersey youth, caught between the sixties and seventies. Springsteen… Read more »
When I met John Sayles at a preview screening of his film Honeydripper (2007) I was struck by two things on my first impression. The first was the size and… Read more »
Suddenly In The Dark (1981) is a soapy Korean exploitation film that barrows from a cross-section of semi-related genres to tell its tale of a housewife on the verge of… Read more »