When you think of Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain, do you think of Thomas Pynchon and Thomas Mann?
Why is it so hard to make myself write an appreciation of Christopher Penn?
The New World is a new watermark.
I watched the re-cut The New World Saturday night and was knocked out, not just by the movie but by the circumstances.
Garrett Brown might be the most influential filmmaker that the moviegoing public hasn’t heard of.
It’s become an industry workhorse not because he was any sort of Luddite, but because he thought the Steadicam encouraged lazy filmmaking.
The blogosphere being what it is, I’m sure the expiration date on Golden Globes commentary has passed.
I’ve just been formally relieved of TCA Press Tour duties by my colleague Alan Sepinwall, who will be covering the second half.
Hill suggests that the western’s slow decline was probably due to two factors.
At a Court TV dinner, James Ellroy said he’d seen three hours of unedited footage from The Black Dahlia.
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.