Wanting to Believe in Escape from Alcatraz
When there’s no definitive evidence either way, the romance of the situation is free to blossom. So often viewed with either fear or contempt, criminals gain a very different reputation […]
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Double Feature: On Falling in Love with Ghosts
Most notably in film noir, but also detectable in drama and fantasy, Hollywood films immediately after World War II often circled around moods of despair and loss. The war had […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Voyage of Time
The Introduction Terrence Malick’s first and, to date, only nonfiction film took an appropriately long and strange journey into existence. Its origins can be traced back to the abandoned film […]
The Manson Movies of 2019
The formula could be expressed thusly, matching up with the chronology of the three films’ premiere dates: Mary Harron’s Charlie Says (Venice Film Festival, September 2, 2018) intends to demythologize the […]
Geppetto's Clocks 