The Felliniesque Century
Consistently regarded as one of the world’s very greatest filmmakers, Federico Fellini is a daunting subject. Developing a bombastic and playful style, he is one of the few who can […]
Consistently regarded as one of the world’s very greatest filmmakers, Federico Fellini is a daunting subject. Developing a bombastic and playful style, he is one of the few who can […]
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 […]
It’s almost immaterial that one of these films is derived from a novel and the other from a memoir. An experiment: Watch Me and Orson Welles and My Week with Marilyn back-to-back […]
To single out the editing in the film Chariots of Fire is, of course, to fly past the two or three most famous and memorable aspects of it. That’s not to […]
The Introduction I first saw Ava DuVernay’s Selma in those pre-MoviePass days when going to a theater by myself was a rare occurrence. This was the weekend after the Oscar nominations […]
On the one hand, the impersonation of a historical figure is the most attention-grabbing and prestigious job any movie actor can undertake. Trying to fit into a well-known persona will […]
Welcome to Hollywood: where art goes to die, or so the story goes. Of all cinematic craftspeople, the writer is typically the most prone to cynicism, because the average screenwriter […]
I always loved their names. To me, they matched each character and the actor playing him to perfection — maybe too well. This may have been a case in which the […]
Eagle-eyed observer that I am, it only took two major clues for me to make the connection between Shakespeare in Love and Amadeus. First is the presence of Simon Callow, which is […]
Director Todd Haynes has acknowledged in interviews that the inspiration for the framing device in Carol came from David Lean’s Brief Encounter. In each case, the in medias res opening leads directly to […]