Both a moving love story (like The Piano, Call Me By Your Name) and a film about the artistic process (La Belle Noiseuse from Rivette) I think it shares a great deal with The Souvenir
John Sturges. No relation to the great Preston who flourished in a very different decade (1940’s) and genre (comedy). John made big budget action movies in the 1950’s and 1960’s and the strength of his
David O. Russell. Russell has a put together an impressive body of work. I have not been able to catch his debut yet- 1994’s Spanking the Money- but five of his subsequent six films (has
A masterpiece of auteur-driven formal and aesthetic choices (wide angle lens, natural lighting, slow-motion photography, tracking shots down the corridor) featuring 2018’s best acting and equally remarkable writing It’s entirely Lanthimos—black, absurdist, profane—but it’s impossible
Jodorowky. Jodorowsky is a talented artist who works in many different formats (not unlike fellow cinematic surrealist David Lynch). The avant-garde Chilean auteur is best known for his 1-2 punch in the early 1970’s (El
Certainly a very good film in its own right, Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress is also notable for its influence on George Lucas, and also Kurosawa’s first widescreen venture (TohoScope which was the Japanese equivalent to
Sam Fuller continues his life-long study of the seedy underbelly of society with this low-budget noir/mystery set in Los Angeles. Captivating opening- murder scene/sequence of the stripper These look like actual dingy streets—certainly not a
Sunset confirms the László Nemes’ 2015 debut Son of Soul was no fluke or happy accident experiment. It was, instead, the debut of a bold new voice for 21st century cinema--- and Sunset is a
Kobayashi. I’ve had the chance now to watch three of the four most highly touted films by Masaki Kobayashi-- hardly exhaustive (painfully- I regret I haven’t been able to catch his 10-hour The Human Condition
So much talent involved that it’s hard not to see this as a bit of a failure- the whole does not add up to the individual pieces in this case Sinatra and Gene Kelly in
Forget Desmond Davis, this is Ray Harryhausen’s film and last venture as producer and stop-motion effects master This was an artifact even in 1981- I mean Empire Strikes Back was in 1980 Last archiveable film
It is probably about the 40th best film of 1996- but enough elements to make it worthy of the archives It borrows a great deal from Jaws- substituting the lion(s) in the for shark (they
