My Most Anticipated 2021 Movies
A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]
A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]
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 […]
What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]
My seventh year of blogging rolls along to its conclusion, and I’ve already broken my previous record for current-year movies viewed. (My total as of this writing is 69 movies […]
Terrence Malick would seem to be precisely the kind of filmmaker who might butt heads with studio financiers. His methodology and style are almost comically divergent from the pragmatic, market-based […]
Checking in with last year’s list, I find that things turned out about as well as could be expected. Of the five movies I’ve seen to date, my least favorite […]
The New Hollywood, it was called. Inspired by similar movements in Europe, a new generation of filmmakers took advantage of the faltering studio system to produce personal, vital, politically relevant […]
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 […]
I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared to Facebook in April and May of this year. Cited below are excerpts that give a little more information […]
(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 […]