James Ellroy hasn’t seen much of De Palma’s film, but he liked what he saw.
Also check out Armond White’s column, in which he beats down Woody Allen.
No explanation required. Here are five, off the top of my head, that really hit me.
And now I must go. I am late to an E! press conference featuring Ryan Seacrest.
The credit card company and the bank should have been a Marx Brothers routine.
Show, don’t tell, say the movie experts.
First, a note on terminology: contrapuntal narration is a specific type of narration that is not merely decorative or functional.
Apropos of nothing, here’s a wonderful passage from the introduction to William Goldman’s Four Screenplays with Essays
Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 epic Barry Lyndon is perhaps his most uncompromising work.
George Lucas haters seem unaware of the fact that Star Wars was never supposed to compete with Antonioni or even Bob Rafelson.
The Hole Story is a merger of faux-documentary, psychological drama, media satire, and cringe comedy.
In general, the smarter and sadder Platt is allowed to be, the more piercing and exciting he is.
Other people direct movies. Terrence Malick builds cathedrals.
My grandfather believed that no journey, however seemingly circuitous or self-destructive, was ever truly unnecessary, or even avoidable.