There is a version of Ali that would have pleased almost everyone. A safe version that played like a ‘greatest...
Read moreAfter Do The Right Thing, black cinema could no longer be ignored or marginalized. Certainly, there were significant films by...
Read moreTo fully appreciate Less Than Zero as a film requires the viewer to understand the source material—the nihilistic novel of...
Read moreIt must have seemed so obvious in the summer of 2002. Put Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg together in a...
Read moreIn the year of its 30th anniversary, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has revised the third film in his Godfather...
Read moreFor more than two hours of Paris, Texas’ two hour and twenty-five minutes of running time, you will likely have...
Read moreLenny, Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic of Lenny Bruce starring Dustin Hoffman as the groundbreaking comedian occupies a strange space in...
Read moreAlan J. Pakula's character study masquerading as a first-rate (and it is first-rate) thriller, Klute, has always seemed to be...
Read moreDavid Cronenberg’s 1983 film based on the Stephen King novel is something of an anomaly for Cronenberg and his leading...
Read moreWhen I connected with the twice Emmy-nominated cinematographer Gregory Middleton to discuss his tremendous work on Watchmen, I don't think...
Read moreAntonia Bird’s Priest begins with a crescendo. A man sits on a park bench, picks up a large wooden cross...
Read moreNormally, when I write one of these "Reframe" pieces, I re-watch the film I'm about to cover. That’s not true...
Read moreThe Insider, Michael Mann’s follow up to Heat, was critically lauded. Unlike its predecessor, it was recognized by the Academy...
Read moreIt all starts with a dog. An impossibly beautiful pit bull that bartender (and maybe more) Bob Saginowski finds wounded...
Read moreIt's an odd distinction being the least successful film with Hannibal Lecter in it. It's a fate that Michael Mann's...
Read moreOver the last quarter century, it's hard to think of a movie more polarizing than Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers....
Read moreIt’s easy to forget that Michael Mann’s classic crime film HEAT was a relatively modest success nearly a quarter century...
Read moreAmerican Gigolo holds a somewhat odd position in Paul Schrader's career. The first two films he directed, Bue Collar and...
Read moreWhen director Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia was released in 1993, it was a watershed moment. As the first big studio film...
Read moreThe late Tony Scott had a reputation that was forever in the shadow of his brother Ridley. His older brother...
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