Reframe

After Do The Right Thing, black cinema could no longer be ignored or marginalized. Certainly, there were significant films by...

To fully appreciate Less Than Zero as a film requires the viewer to understand the source material—the nihilistic novel of...

It must have seemed so obvious in the summer of 2002. Put Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg together in a...

In the year of its 30th anniversary, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has revised the third film in his Godfather...

For more than two hours of Paris, Texas’ two hour and twenty-five minutes of running time, you will likely have...

Lenny, Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic of Lenny Bruce starring Dustin Hoffman as the groundbreaking comedian occupies a strange space in...

Alan J. Pakula's character study masquerading as a first-rate (and it is first-rate) thriller, Klute, has always seemed to be...

David Cronenberg’s 1983 film based on the Stephen King novel is something of an anomaly for Cronenberg and his leading...

When I connected with the twice Emmy-nominated cinematographer Gregory Middleton to discuss his tremendous work on Watchmen, I don't think...

Antonia Bird’s Priest begins with a crescendo. A man sits on a park bench, picks up a large wooden cross...

Normally, when I write one of these "Reframe" pieces, I re-watch the film I'm about to cover. That’s not true...

The Insider, Michael Mann’s follow up to Heat, was critically lauded. Unlike its predecessor, it was recognized by the Academy...

It all starts with a dog. An impossibly beautiful pit bull that bartender (and maybe more) Bob Saginowski finds wounded...

It's an odd distinction being the least successful film with Hannibal Lecter in it. It's a fate that Michael Mann's...

Over the last quarter century, it's hard to think of a movie more polarizing than Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers....

It’s easy to forget that Michael Mann’s classic crime film HEAT was a relatively modest success nearly a quarter century...

American Gigolo holds a somewhat odd position in Paul Schrader's career. The first two films he directed, Bue Collar and...

When director Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia was released in 1993, it was a watershed moment. As the first big studio film...

The late Tony Scott had a reputation that was forever in the shadow of his brother Ridley. His older brother...

Purple Rain arrived in theatres on July 27, 1984. Prince was a well-known and controversial musician by then. He had...