Primary Colors
“You wet fart of a human turd.” With the presidential primary election well at hand I thought it was time to revisit Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors (1998). The political landscape… Read more »
“You wet fart of a human turd.” With the presidential primary election well at hand I thought it was time to revisit Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors (1998). The political landscape… Read more »
Before making his masterpiece Reds (1981), Warren Beatty produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Compared to the histrionics… Read more »
Elaine May re-teamed with her Luv (1967) co-star Peter Falk for her definitive statement on masculine frailty Mikey & Nicky (1976). May spent a long time in pre-production on the… Read more »
Director Clive Donner seems to have spent the silver sixties trying to tap into the zeitgeist. Films like What’s New Pussycat? (1965) and Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush… Read more »
By now the reputation of Ishtar (1987) is more widely known than the film is seen. The narrative of that reputation has changed over the intervening decades from one of… Read more »
It seems that film history is finally being amended to accurately represent the contributions of women filmmakers. People like Shelley Stamp are working very hard to draw critical attention to… Read more »