The Last Hero in China: My Favorite Yuen Woo-ping Films
I look back fondly at my Letterboxd review of the late Chor Yuen’s The Lizard (1972), which kicked off my Yuen Woo-ping action retrospective in January. Specifically, I have to […]
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Announcing My 2022 Movie Retrospective: The Fight Choreography of Yuen Woo-ping
A central figure in the history of Hong Kong action films, Yuen Woo-ping has enjoyed a fifty-year career putting together some of the most enthusiastically kinetic cinema in existence. Carrying […]
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 […]
My Most Anticipated 2019 Movies
As it turns out, two things can be true at once. First, with the aid of a couple different subscription services, I’ve been able to see more movies from the […]
My 25 Favorite Movie Openings
“Beginnings are always difficult.” So says Herbert Marshall in the first scene of Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932). Endings can be extremely difficult to do well, but they’re easier to envision […]
My 25 Favorite Movie Endings
Film writers like to use a metaphor from sports to describe the importance and difficulty of ending a movie well: “sticking the landing.” All the goodwill a movie builds up […]
My Most Anticipated 2015 Movies
There are two equal and opposing thoughts rising in me as I contemplate my fourth annual “most anticipated movies” list. First is that 2015 looks really exciting. Each of the […]
My Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction
Let’s talk close-ups. Not of actors, although there are plenty of interesting faces in Pulp Fiction, and almost every member of its large ensemble gets at least one close-up during the […]
Double Feature: Jackie Brown and Out of Sight
This is almost certainly going to be the most time-consuming double feature I’ll ever propose, but these two films are each a great deal of fun, and the connections between […]
Supplemental Post: Pulp Fiction, Meet The Tree of Life
(See my previous post) As Deems Taylor puts it during his final speech in Fantasia, “[The pinnacle of my all-time favorite movies list] is a combination of two [films] so […]
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