Trois couleurs: Bleu
I am not going to comment on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Bleu in the greater context of Les Trois Couleurs. I prefer to assess one film at a time as a stand alone piece… Read more »
Tag: 1990s
The Freethinker
Peter Watkins made a career out of deconstructing genres, employing reflexive tactics, advocating a freer media, and reinterpreting film language with a number of groundbreaking and epically experimental films. In… Read more »
Foxfire
Foxfire (1996) is one of those rare films about teenagers that manages to imbue a well worn genre with heart and social relevance. The film is ostensibly an adaptation of… Read more »
Hearts Of Darkness
In the early seventies, John Milius adapted Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness into the screenplay that would famously be made into Apocalypse Now (1979). Twelve years after the theatrical release of Apocalypse Now, Fax… Read more »
True Romance
It always surprises me how well Tony Scott’s style as a director suits Quentin Tarantino’s script for True Romance (1993). Scott imbues every scene, action sequences and otherwise, with such… Read more »
Industrial Symphony No. 1
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream Of The Broken Hearted was only performed twice at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music as part of the New Music America Festival in late 1989. For… Read more »
The Glass Shield
Until pretty recently audiences haven’t really taken notice of Charles Burnett’s films post his debut Killer Of Sheep (1978). Luckily, some pretty decked out home video editions of his early… Read more »
Lost Highway
Barry Gifford’s first forray into the “world” of David Lynch came when Lynch adapted Gifford’s novel Wild At Heart into a feature film in 1990. Though Gifford did not participate… Read more »
The City Of Lost Children
Here is a piece I wrote for the Cinematheque Internationale of Philadelphia in 2011. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro completed and released their film The City Of Lost Children in… 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 »
