Most film critics have a pretty good handle on what it is a director does, what a cinematographer does, what an editor does. Acting, however, remains a little bit mysterious.
Wilder’s tour of Hollywood’s village of the damned finally gets its close-up on Blu-ray with an excellent A/V transfer.
I’m a compulsive. It’s no surprise that my list is full of movies about compulsion.
It’s unavoidable to look at Octavia Spencer’s sunny Oscar odds though the filter of co-star Viola Davis’s ascendance in the Best Actress category.
With The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius stretches a feather-light gimmick to feature-length.
Both All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard are the kind of movies that one hopes, 60 years later, would seem like dated time capsules from an earlier era.
It’s not a terribly good film, but its discovery is worth celebrating.
Wilder’s movies are full of greedy characters out for themselves no matter what the cost.
It goes without saying that the discovery and restoration of Beyond the Rocks is a cause for celebration.