They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for April, 1979
A Little Romance (1979)
When I heard the bare bones plot synopsis of A Little Romance, the story of two teenagers in Paris who fall in love, my brain went immediately to The Blue Lagoon. More often than not, in the late 70s, when young people fall in love in the movies, they do so at the urging of […]
Old Boyfriends (1979)
Old Boyfriends is not the longest film that I have ever seen, but it is one of the looongest films that I have ever seen. Over-extended, overly melodramatic, and as dull as a beige room. It is a film that I could easily dispose of if I didn’t feel that the intentions were so strong. […]
Hurricane (1979)
You know those documentaries that pop up on television all the time that recount the legend of one of the great treasures of Hollywood? I would like to see the flipside of that, a documentary about a movie that failed miserable and then tried to explain how ridiculously talented people got involved in a genre […]
A Perfect Couple (1979)
I was surprised to find that within four months, between October of 1978 and February of 1979, that Robert Altman had released three films. An even bigger surprise was that all of three were basically worthless. The nicest thing that I can say is that, unlike Quintet, at least A Wedding and A Perfect Couple […]
The Champ (1979)
[reviewed February 14, 2021] Okay, I suppose that if you have to remake The Champ, you could do a lot worse. At a moment in movie history when the major Hollywood Studios were obsessively chasing the success of Jaws and Star Wars and trying to calculate precisely what would get people into theater seats, the […]
