The Cinema Auteur of India Rewards Discovery
The word “humanist” gets thrown around a lot in cinema discourse. Used to describe filmmakers with compassionate w...
Our Summer with Ingmar, at 100
Confession: I had intended to write a long piece this July observing the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish film dire...
Iconic Star of Few Words is a Prolific Director of Fewer Takes
Eastwood after the 65th Academy Awards
Clint Eastwood was famously a nobody before he got to...
Academy Award Winning Director of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST and AMADEUS, 1932-2018
Jeffrey Knight
There was no way you were going to convince 13-year-ol...
Sometimes, They Say, A Door Is Just A Door...
DIRECTED BY: HOWARD HAWKS/1959
In conjunction with Film Admissions - Howard Hawks
A movie about doors. Yes....
Nobody's Perfect, but Some are Closer Than Others, Filmmaking-wise
In the early 2000s I was producing a radio show that had Richard Dreyfuss on as a guest. As...
Let's be real: this list is about me, not the movies, so it's a favorites list by default, not a best of. I didn't see enough 2017 movies to justify the hubris ...
Down Under Meets London Underground For A Sub-Par Bond
DIRECTED BY: RALPH THOMAS/1968
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 28 , 2017/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Rod...
Robert fell into the movie trap at 7 with Ray Harryhausen, advanced through the Marx Bros, the Coen Bros, Howard Hawks, Spielberg, and the holy trinity of Ozu, Tati, and Truffaut, and now loves too many to possibly list. He’ll watch an old movie before a new one every time, and a comedy before a drama, but mostly he’ll watch just about anything. He’s a writer, teacher, and student in Texas, where he lives with his wife and little boy, both of whom know all about his crush on Myrna Loy.
