By 1948, Frank Borzage, early Hollywood’s supreme romanticist, had fallen by the wayside. The man who’d won the very first Academy Award for Directing in 1927 and a second in 1932 was now struggling to […]
In recent months, the Criterion Collection has released two films from the 1980s that are about the art of storytelling. The first, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride (1987), is a beloved Hollywood classic, based on […]
[This review was begun the same day as the Oct. 27, 2018 Tree of Life shooting.] They killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh today, gunned down in their synagogue as they prayed round their holy scriptures. […]
Director Lloyd Bacon and choreographer Busby Berkeley’s 42nd Street has rightfully been heralded as a masterpiece, but less can be said for the film that inspired it: John Murray Anderson’s King of Jazz (1930). One […]
From its opening citation—a line from David Bowie’s 1971 song “Changes,” about children being “quite aware of what they’re going through”—to its final, rebelliously jubilant freeze frame, The Breakfast Club makes no attempt to hide […]
Following the success of The Player (1992), which was widely regarded as a return to form for director Robert Altman (even though eclecticism is often what defined the best of his work), Short Cuts seemed […]
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