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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 »
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 »
City War (1988) reunites A Better Tomorrow (1986) stars Chow Yun-fat and Ti Lung for a gritty police thriller. Helmed by Shaw Brothers veteran Sun Chung, City War is more… Read more »
In the distant future, in the wake of WWIII, there are few humans alive capable of procreating. The nuclear fallout that has rendered almost all of humanity sterile has also… Read more »
Director Michael Winner filters Leslie Arliss’ melodrama through the exploitation genre and winds up with a masterpiece of high camp. The Wicked Lady (1983) is one of Michael Winner’s projects… Read more »
The Sign Of Four (1987) is the first of the Sherlock Holmes television movies helmed by John Hawkesworth for Granada Television. The Sign Of Four corresponds to the end of… Read more »
Sword of the Valiant (1984) was Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan’s attempt to cash-in on the success of John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) by adapting the 14th century Arthurian poem Sir… Read more »