They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for January, 1979
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1979)
One of the drawbacks of being a movie lover is, very often, watching very bad films walk away with the Oscar while better films are left in the dust. In my recent history with the Oscars this has been the case with Gladiator, The Blind Side, Green Book, The Usual Suspects, Crash, The Cider House […]
Once in Paris . . . (1979)
Once in Paris is hardly really a movie. It’s a project made for financial reasons. Some studio execs put a project together with a likable star who needed the work (in this case, Wayne Rogers), had him travel to a lovely vacation destination (in this case, Paris) and coupled him with a nice-looking lady (in […]
The Last Wave (1979)
There lives eternally in me a passionate love of films from Australia. Like films from Japan or Sweden, they just seem to walk and talk like nothing else in any other culture. I treasure films from down under, films like Walkabout, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, My Brilliant Career and Tim. […]
The Brink’s Job (1979)
For whatever reason, the late 70s were ripe with movies about big-money heists. Possibly this came from the anti-establishment trend in the culture, possibly it came from the fact that the clockwork manner of a heist makes for entertaining visuals. Whatever the reason, this was the era of the heist movie – The Great Train […]
