In this, our premiere episode, hosts Jill Blake and Wade Sheeler get blitzed in a hotel room in Atlanta while discussing Jill’s obsession with actor Fredric March, Wade’s obsession with classic comedy teams, and the struggle […]
There’s precisely one sequence in No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), St John Legh Clowes’ grisly gangster film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s novel, where the stars align and everything comes perfectly together. It happens […]
Two scenes tell you all you need to know about The Hot Rock, Peter Yates’ 1972 comedy caper. The first is when Robert Redford’s criminal team leader, John Dortmunder, convenes with explosives expert Allan Greenberg […]
There are few constants in life: death and taxes; the swelling and sighing of the tides; and the continual expansion of the Criterion Collection, perhaps the world’s greatest purveyor of boutique cinema releases. On a […]
Opinion by A. C. Miller If you’ve ever seen a Woody Allen film, you know his style of humor. He usually portrays someone down on his luck in some mundane, obscure, or self-inflicting way. And, […]
It was a blessing and a curse for Philip D’Antoni. The producer of Bullitt (dir. Peter Yates, 1968) and The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin,1971), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture, […]
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