They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for November, 1979
The Runner Stumbles (1980)
Stanley Kramer’s The Runner Stumbles feels about fifty years out of date, maybe sixty. I’m not being glib, I’m just observing that every emotional display of this film from the dialogue, to the staging, to the music, to the lighting feels like it belongs in a movie from around 1955. That style, placed in a […]
Running (1979)
Oh, Rocky! What have you done to us? The inevitable fallout to a successful movie – particularly one that walks away with an Oscar for Best Picture – is that it is bound to have cheap imitators. Within the span of 1978 and 1979, there were a glut of inspiration sports movies covering the entire […]
