Reds
Reds (1981) realizes imperfect memories as historic fiction. What is truth is never clear, only ever suggested by actors and interviewees who so often seem at odds with the story… Read more »
Tag: Warren Beatty
Heaven Can Wait
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 »
Ishtar
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 »
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Altman’s film McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a film of cultural anxiety and masculine identity, tied more closely with the time of its production than to the era in which its… Read more »
Shampoo
Shampoo (1975), unlike Hal Ashby’s earlier films The Last Detail (1973) and Harold and Maude (1971), lacks the presence of any literal physical death. Instead, the film focuses on a… Read more »
Depicting Time
The concept of duration is essential to the artificial experience of time and memory in linear narrative filmmaking. Duration within the narrative, marking the passage of time, is signified most… Read more »
Lilith
Robert Rossen is best known for having written and directed All The King’s Men, Alexander The Great and The Hustler. But little is written of his final feature, the intimate… Read more »
