In the immediate years after the talkie era began, Mervyn LeRoy was about as big as it got as a director. He was just pushing out content through the early 30s, multiple films a year. Since they were usually only about an hour long and...
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Madeline Anderson's 1960 film Integration Report No. 1 is a solid film reviewing that moment in the civil rights movement. Some of it is stuff you remember and some of.
I've been watching quite a few films lately, but I've also been trying to write and I haven't gotten to the point of writing Film Club posts very often. Will.
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's 2019 film Bacurau is an absolutely brilliant horror-western that is a very lightly disguised allegory for life under Bolsonaro. Set in the "very near future," it is about a town way out in the sertão, the Brazilian outback. The...
I had never seen any version of A Star is Born, including the recent one with Lady Gaga. The story is well known--girl wants to be famous in the entertainment.
OK........well, I had never seen Paul Mazursky's 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. In fact, I really knew nothing about it except for the classic image from.
I am such a huge fan of Wong Kar Wai, well, at least until My Blueberry Nights. Everything from As Tears Go By in 1988 to 2046 in 2004 is between excellent and one of my favorite films ever. So I was so disappointed when...
I hadn't seen Tim Burton's (I realize Henry Selick is the actual director) The Nightmare Before Christmas in many years. But a 14 hour flight from Singapore to Vancouver and.
Criterion has had a Maurice Pialat series. I had never seen any of his films, so I checked out 1972 film We Won't Grow Old Together. It's an autobiographical film.
Framed is a 1947 noir(ish) directed by Richard Wallace and starring Glenn Ford as a man entering a town who meets a woman who isn't what she seems. Fresh, I know. The basic plot is that the woman (Janis Carter) is a waitress who takes...
On Saturday, I had a 14 hour flight from Singapore to Vancouver and so that was a 5 movie flight. Mostly, I watched some old favorites. Air Canada has an.
Like every other Sergio Leone film, there's a lot in his magisterial masterpiece Once Upon a Time in America that makes no sense--how does Robert DeNiro know how to drive.