Reflections on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Looking back a year later, One Battle After Another is a movie that behaves as if Anderson suddenly remembered that the camera is a toy before it's an altar.
Tremble…Sigh…Wonder…
Art Still Matters.
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
Difficult to Ignore: David Mamet’s Unproduced Screenplays DENTISTS WITH GUNS and RUSSIAN POLAND
Newly unleashed, unproduced screenplays by David Mamet are difficult to ignore.
Worth the Cringe: Zendaya in THE DRAMA
Zendaya is Worth the Cringe in THE DRAMA.
Deneuve as Bogart: The Strange Pleasures of Ecoute Voir…
Deneuve as Bogart. Pretty cool.
Deneuve Unleashed: Screwball Chaos in Rappeneau’s Le Sauvage
Cinema doesn't get much more European than Yves Montand clocking Catherine Deneuve with a pineapple in LE SAUVAGE.
Ella McCay: a Generous Movie in an Ungenerous Era
I was wholly involved, engaged and intrigued watching Ella McCay. We as a race should be more embarrassed by our obsession with finding new cool, cinematic ways to represent bullet trajectories.
Foggy, Indeed
Someone's got to be the last remaining John Cusack completist.
How Cheap Trick Outlived Their Moment, and I’m Glad.
Even now, even all washed up, they still sound like Cheap Trick.
No Cult Favorite: BREAKING AWAY Is a Masterpiece
I trust Breaking Away completely. Simply and without strain, it remains one of the greatest and most truthful American films ever made.
Prescription for Chaos: HEADHUNTER and the Films (and Fantasies) of Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen made the outrageous into the outrageously insightful, always in his own voice, always on his own terms. And so it is with HEADHUNTER.