Cop Land
Cop Land (1997) is writer/director James Mangold’s reimagining of the gritty New Hollywood cop film as a pulpy film noir. The plot is pure pulp, the execution all grit and… Read more »
Tag: Robert John Burke
The Unbelievable Truth
When Hal Hartley first emerged on the American Independent Film scene with The Unbelievable Truth (1989) it was like nothing else. The fusion of the literate with the plastic, his… Read more »
No Such Thing
This evening I watched Hartley’s 2001 offering No Such Thing. Unlike Hartley’s most popular films, which deal with relationships and quirky characters, this film was much more overtly philosophical and… Read more »
BlacKKKlansman
“Dreams we dream alone is only a dream, but dreams we dream together is reality” – Yoko Ono, 1971 Fantasy is at the heart of Spike Lee’s film BlacKKKlansman (2018)…. Read more »
