Movies, and my thoughts on them.
At not quite 250 years old, America is a new country. As is the case with all new nations, this relative youth brings with it a lack of a unifying ideology for its inhabitants. If …
I am a pretty big fan of portraying myself as a PFC (pretentious film cock for those not in the know). I throw out names like Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer as if they are all that …
John Ford and Howard Hawks are very tempting to lump together when talking about great American directors. And indeed, their careers roughly parallel each other in length and time period, they are without question two …
There are few things I think of as fondly as American Westerns, but the movies of Robert Altman sure come close. So when I heard Altman passed away at the age of 81 on November …
I thought I'd take a bit of time to write about some of my favorite movie mantras. I'm talking "mantras" in the loosest sense of the word, basically just any phrase that the central character …
Chaplin or Keaton...that is the question. Actually, not really, they are both great (along with Lloyd, Langdon and the rest of them). Still, I always answer with a resounding "Keaton!" and Our Hospitality is a …
To start, I'll say that I've never liked musicals. I really hadn't seen any of the "classics" (aside from Westside Story in junior high), but pretty much whenever anyone breaks into song and dance I …
Having recently seen Wages of Fear for the third time, I have to say it is just as intense as the first time I watched it. This is really one of the only movies that …
To start with, I'll admit that John Wayne didn't have a great range, and most of his roles were just variations on the persona he created for himself. But honestly I can't think of anyone …