They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Armchair Oscars – 1985
Best Picture THE WINNER: Out of Africa (Directed by Sydney Pollack) The Nominees: The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi’s Honor, Witness MY CHOICE: Blood Simple. (Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen) My Nominees: After Hours (Martin Scorsese), Cocoon (Ron Howard), The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg), Mask (Peter Bogdanovich), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), Ran (Akira Kurosawa) […]
Armchair Oscars – 1979
Best Picture THE WINNER: Kramer vs. Kramer (Directed by Robert Benton) The Nominees: All the Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma Rae MY CHOICE: Manhattan (Directed by Woody Allen) My Nominees: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola), Alien (Ridley Scott), Being There (Hal Ashby), The Black Stallion (Caroll Ballard), The China Syndrome (James Bridges), Norma Rae (Martin […]
I Am Number Four (2011)
I guess he’s fortunate that he wasn’t Number Two. I Am Number Four is a teen science fiction thriller so shabby that it resembles a failed TV pilot that never got picked up. If it did, I can’t imagine that it could muster enough interest for public access. The main inspiration seems to have been […]
Catfish (2011)
Catfish is an odd, strange and very moving documentary that starts as a portrait of the 21st century practice of online romance, then turns into a baffling mystery worthy of Hitchcock and then emerges as a touching portrait of human identity. If that all sounds too complicated, relax, the film is one of the most […]
Source Code (2011)
Source Code is a wonderfully odd and intriguing science fiction thriller. It is one of those movies that begins with no information and then builds a rotating mystery piece by piece. It contains a lot of twists and turns, a lot of detail and we are with it every step of the way.The movie stars […]
