classic hollywood – Page 4 – What is Best in Life

Cinema Scripture School 1: King of Kings (Nicholas Ray, 1961)

isley.unruh / February 4, 2010

Every now and then I’m reminded that I really don’t know as much about the bible as I thought I […]

isley.unruh / October 21, 2009

Westerns, at their hearts, are stories about heroes. The hero defeats the villains and saves the honest townsfolk using, not just […]

The “gangster film” is a true American creation. There were of course many early foreign films with elements of “crime” in […]

I’ve talked about the idea of the Western as a unique American mythology before, and the concept is important in […]

isley.unruh / December 16, 2008

I wasn’t sure whether to write a “My Favorite Christmas Movies” post, a “My Favorite Christmas Movie” post or just a […]

isley.unruh / October 25, 2008

This review is full of spoilers, so if you like classic westerns crossed with classic war films, Fort Apache is […]

isley.unruh / October 15, 2007

So there it is, Saturday night, and I’m sitting at home with a Breckenridge double IPA watching a movie (instead […]

isley.unruh / September 18, 2007

First, if you haven’t seen Casablanca and don’t know how it ends…well lucky you! Quit reading this and go watch […]

isley.unruh / August 22, 2007

After finally watching Robert Altman’s Thieves like Us the other day, I had a bit of a revelation: I’m just […]

isley.unruh / August 15, 2007

Like some kind of desert island male wish-fulfillment fantasy, there seem to have been a lot of golden age Hollywood […]