Stranger Than Paradise
I remember the first time that I journeyed to south Florida. All I really knew about Florida before making the trip came from Norman Mailer’s book Miami & The Siege of… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
The Good Mother
Directed by Leonard Nimoy (after his success directing two installments of the Star Trek film franchise at Paramount) The Good Mother (1988) focuses on Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton), a single… Read more »
The Unbelievable Truth
When Hal Hartley first emerged on the American Independent Film scene with The Unbelievable Truth (1989) it was like nothing else. The fusion of the literate with the plastic, his… Read more »
Jazzin’ For Blue Jean
Everyone knows who Buster Keaton is and is familiar with his unique and often inventive contributions to the medium of film. But how many people have noticed David Bowie’s fascination… Read more »
Scenario Du Film Passion
In the following piece I make several references to Fabrice Ziolkowski’s article The Passion According To Jean-Luc, which appears on pages 48-49 of On Film issue #12. It may be helpful… Read more »
A Better Tomorrow
If one hasn’t seen many Heroic Bloodshed films from the eighties and nineties one probably has the impression that these films are low-brow entertainment, but there is more here than… Read more »
Marvin & Tige
By the early eighties, John Cassavetes was taking roles in mainstream American films again. The number of films he starred in between 1977 and 1985 that were made by other… Read more »
Le Raccourci
Ever since the early 2000s it’s been in vogue, at least on the Internet, to make a mockery of Nicolas Cage. Of course, some of Nicolas Cage’s films have been,… Read more »
Max Mon Amour
Nagisa Oshima has the reputation for being one of the most controversial and cutting edge filmmakers to emerge in Japan during the early sixties. Unlike his contemporaries, Oshima’s films do… Read more »
Modern Romance
Albert Brooks’ second feature film Modern Romance (1981) is a satire unlike few others in popular cinema. As the title suggests, Brooks’ has honed his comical eye on the conventions of… Read more »
