Oppenheimer
The publicity of “Barbenheimer” has tapped into the competitive nature of human beings, exploiting that impulse to generate phenomenal ticket sales. The two films also tap into the political dichotomy… Read more »
Tag: Gary Oldman
Tiptoes
Tiptoes (2003) apparently has a director’s cut of 150 minutes which is an hour longer than the widely released producer’s cut that I saw and will be writing about. The… Read more »
The Dark Knight Rises
Who is Catwoman? In the Batman Comics, she’s a femme fatale, wielding a whip, always changing allegiances, yet always flirting with her romantic interest that would otherwise be her nemesis…. Read more »
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
By 1992 Francis Ford Coppola had become a director for hire, restricted by the financial debt incurred with the prestige Zoetrope productions of One From The Heart (1982), Rumble Fish… Read more »
Track 29
Nicolas Roeg is famous for the shot compositions in his films, filling the frame with tension and subversive sexual anxiety. In 1988, Roeg made Track 29 with George Harrison’s Handmade Films. The cast… 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 »
Air Force One
This piece was written in 2015 while Donald Trump was still on the campaign trail. When Bonnie Tyler recorded Holding Out For A Hero for the film Footloose in 1984… Read more »
Basquiat
Recently I received as a gift ANDY WARHOL Polaroids 1958-1987, published by Taschen. It is a marvelous presentation of Warhol’s work, quite fascinating when one begins to compare these original… Read more »
