I have always wanted to like Catherine Breillat's films, but never have. I find her a cut-rate Eric Rohmer, trying and failing to equal Rohmer's dialogue about sex and love and making up for it with shock value. People liked "Fat Girl" and most of...
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Last night I watched "Mesrine", the 4 hour film on the life of the notorious French gangster of the 60s and 70s, Jacques Mesrine. It was very good, but not.
People are complaining that Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" isn't telling the whole story about the convicted murderers it portrays. Herzog has long eschewed the idea of "truth" in his.
There's a been a bit of buzz across the blogosphere in the last 24 hours supporting Hendrik Hertzberg's call for an Alexander Hamilton movie. Of all the Founders’ lives, Hamilton’s was the most garishly cinematic. Consider these elements: born in the West Indies (the film...
I've been making it through the many Looney Tunes collections over the past couple of years. Last night, I watched "I Love to Singa" for the first time in a.
With the World Series off tonight, I watched Three on a Match, the 1932 film starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. It's not great, despite the.
Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power--dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning white people had at the time too. But Instead of something to disapprove of, it...
I love editors. I say this as someone who doesn't have the greatest confidence in his own writing. I don't always agree with their ideas, but I usually do. I.
Edward Copeland: I don’t know what to say about Tracy. Katharine Hepburn once compared him to a potato (she meant it as a compliment), and that’s pretty apt. He’s solid.
Why someone didn't cast Werner Herzog as a supervillain before this is beyond me. Who could be more perfect?
Like a lot of people, I am perplexed by Netflix splitting its home-delivery service from its online service: Which raises the question: What is Reed Hastings smoking? As far as.
The American Film Archives, which have preserved hundreds of rare and nearly lost films, are releasing their 5th DVD set this month, on the West. Covering the years 1898-1938, this.