Touch
Paul Schrader’s adaptation of a novel by Elmore Leonard, Touch (1997), is something of an unsung entry in the filmmaker’s oeuvre. Touch is both darkly comic and politically relevant, even… Read more »
Tag: Christopher Walken
Last Embrace
With his film Last Embrace (1979) Jonathan Demme tackles the aesthetic idiom of Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma with his own variation on Vertigo (1958). Demme’s film concerns a… Read more »
Dune: Part Two
Before going to see Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024) this last weekend I revisited David Lynch’s Dune (1984). No film is going to match the style of Lynch’s kinky… Read more »
Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton’s unique brand of “Pop Goth” has become so codified and commodified in popular culture that his films seem to exist as an entity beyond film. The cult following,… Read more »
At Close Range
Although shot in Tennessee, At Close Range (1986) is a film that feels authentically Pennsylvanian. So many of the interior spaces look like the spaces that I grew up in…. Read more »
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978) remains a cinematic touchstone for a generation traumatized by the Vietnam War. The Deer Hunter‘s high regard has diminished slightly since, when reevaluations in… 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 »
The Jungle Book
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. I saw The Jungle Book with my mother and brother about a week and a half after my… Read more »
