They’re well nigh on being 80 years old, but the films of Alfred Hitchcock’s British Period, his vastly entertaining oeuvre before he crossed over the pond to the cinematic heights of Hollywood, are looking as fresh and fascinating as ever. Case in point: Secret Agent, a very fine spy picture that boasts some haunting visual set […]
To highlight one of the many movies we’ve covered in the past that’s now currently streaming on Netflix, we are reposting our 2015 feature on The Nightmare. The interview below features one of the stars of The Nightmare, Kate Angus who recently published her beautifully realized debut book So Late to the Party. “There’s nothing we can do […]
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Oakes […]
Today’s Movie-Still Monday celebrates the Olympic games in Rio with director’s Kon Ichikawa documentary masterpiece Tokyo Olympiad. A film commissioned by the Japanese government to show a new positive post-World War II image. The beautifully shot film successfully presents the emotional side of the games.
Director Irvin Kirshner did something pretty special with The Eyes of Laura Mars. He captured the visceral pulsating atmosphere of the dying days of that immoral Me Decade, the 1970’s, and the cultural nexus where all that grime, grit, glitter, and glamour was in full swing, the scary and wonderful New York City that President Ford […]
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father (Viggo Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea […]
The Lower East Side in its raw, early ’80s, glory is captured by director Susan Seidelman, who later went on to direct Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan. The film follows a self-centered girl from New Jersey who moves to New York City to join the punk rock scene. Smthereens is on the big screen with a new 35mm […]
Director and writers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert take viewers on a surreal, confusing, yet crafty, unique journey with Paul Dano as a down-and-out man stranded in the backyard wilderness and his new buddy, a flatulent corpse, played by Daniel Radcliffe. If you like your material literal and concrete, you won’t like this film, but if you […]
I am a little taken a back that we have reached July and there are only three maybe four movies that I really enjoyed (Sing Street, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Lobster and Captain America: Civil War). I look to July with some hope with Life, Animated, Captain Fantastic, Café Society and finally The Secret Life […]
The 1960’s It Girl, Julie Christie has a star turn in this very fine adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s proto-feminist 19th century novel. She’s a headstrong young woman who comes into a substantial inheritance, her wealthy uncle’s working farm. In good time she manages to beguile three different suitors all at once, making her the Goldilocks […]
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