According to 1993’s Demolition Man, the Los Angeles of 1996 is like a war zone: a post-apocalyptic, grim, techno-blasted war zone. As seen at the start of this sci-fi-comic-action bonanza, even the Hollywood sign is […]
Nicholas Ray’s The True Story of Jesse James (1957) is a film about progressive myth-making, the fabrications and recollections that produce a multifaceted yet never fully realized celebrity figure. Here, the legacy of its notorious […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Jane Fosset, a French woman several months pregnant played by Leslie Caron, tells her unborn child’s father, an actor, that one “can’t play a part until you’ve lived it.” Fundamentally true or not, it’s […]
Current impressions will often skew or shape one’s perception of a classic film. It’s hard, forexample, to look back at a historical moment in time and not draw associations between that period’s politics — the tactics […]
John Baggs Jr. says he’s a good judge of character. Played by James Caan, the sailor tells this to Maggie (Marsha Mason), a casual prostitute with whom he falls rather swiftly in love. As Cinderella […]
A few scenic shots under the credits transition the opening of The Other Side of Midnight to a Greek prison, where two of the film’s central characters meet for what seems to be both an […]
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