From Here To Eternity
Director Fred Zinnemann is one of a handful of German directors, including Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk and Robert Siodmak, who relocated to Hollywood in the thirties. In terms of political… Read more »
Tag: Burt Lancaster
The Swimmer
Last Friday I had tea with my buddy Neal to discuss programming a series of Czech New Wave films. Chatting away, two content cinephiles, the subject of Frank Perry came… Read more »
Vengeance Valley
“The Skipper” was how I knew Burt Lancaster as a kid. His real name was unmanageable to a three year old. He was just “The Skipper” because that’s what his… Read more »
Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
“We’re playing two pre-Freudian fags. We’re in love with each other and we don’t know how to express ourselves that way-we just kind of look at each other and grunt… Read more »
Elmer Gantry
Very rarely does one film achieve a synchronicity in both its drama and its technical achievement; but Elmer Gantry (1960) succeeds. And Brooks directs this synchronicity through the bravura performance of… Read more »
Conversation Piece
Born to the Italian nobility in 1906, Visconti would be given the highest form of education as well as a wealth of experiences before directing his first feature Obsession in 1943. … Read more »
Kiss The Blood Off My Hands
It is relatively easy today to discover a film. It is certainly far easier today than it was when I was growing up. Online streaming platforms such as the CriterionChannel… Read more »
The Flame & The Arrow
By 1950, Jacques Tourneur had made a name for himself as one of the most versatile and economic of filmmakers working in Hollywood. He had helmed such acclaimed titles as… Read more »
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 »
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 »
