At the heart of Edward Dmytryk’s sweeping Western Broken Lance is a simple quiet scene of near overwhelming power. Tyrannical cattle rancher Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) and his four sons confront the owner of a […]
It was the color. The color wasn’t just a part of the music, it was a part of the extraordinary web of artistic risk that defined the nigh undefinable work of art that IS David […]
Does anyone talk about the long take in Julien Temple’s Absolute Beginners? Whenever a list of the “best long takes” appears, the usual suspects are always on there: Russian Ark, Week End, The Player, Touch of […]
One of the most common traps reviewers face while reviewing highly metaphysical films is the temptation to write off any artistic errors or inconsistencies as deliberate creative decisions. It’s not that a film is paced […]
In 1941, Paramount approached Max and Dave Fleischer, heads of their in-house animation production, with a proposal: to adapt the increasingly popular Superman comic book into an animated series for the big screen. But the Fleischers were reluctant. […]
Today, across the country, folks are celebrating (or not) the birth of the once and future king, Elvis. Countless books, films and articles have covered the man and the myth from the evangelical to the […]
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