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The road picture can take many forms. One clever, rarer form is that of the wandering minstrel and his consort. This form was used to great effect, for example, in Bergman's classic, "The Seventh Seal." It is in this guise that we find another two European actors, from different eras ...
Movie Review: Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
There are a handful of film directors who can be said to be true geniuses: Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Bergman to name a few. There is also one that seems to stand alone as far as complexity, form, and technical brilliance. The man with the difficult name to pronounce, Krzysztof Ki...
Brief review of the 2004 film "Mean Creek", starring Josh Peck
Review of the recently released-to-dvd film "The Impossible", starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.
Case study films are usually the stuff of 'made-for-TV movies', or they star Meridith Baxter and are shown on the Lifetime Channel. Once in a while, however, Hollywood decides to step into the mix. This is the case with 1957's, "The Three Faces of Eve" with a standout performance by J...
An article examining the use of music in drama film, American Graffiti
What did Richard Harris do in the 1990's before donning the Dumbledore beard and wig you ask? Okay, okay, you didn't ask, but here's the answer anyway. Well, he starred in rather well-reviewed. well-acted films like "Smilla's Sense of Snow," "Unforgiven," and this lesser known flick, ...
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence seem to be on a critical success train that defies categorization or typecasting. Throw in the best performance we've seen of De Niro for a long, long time, and you've got a winner.
Sandrine Bonnaire is an actress of astounding range. Her varied films over a 30 year career (so far) are impressive, to say the least. She could arguably be called the "Meryl Streep" of France, and is on par with Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, or Irene Jacob in depth of field in ...
Films about fate abound in Hollywood and beyond. In fact, it is a rather international phenomenon to introduce a weighty dramatic element that changes the course of its characters within a film's progression.
Challenging subject matter often makes the best films. Bergman never used violence in a gratuitous manner, which made it all the more stomach-churning. It's as if he were saying, "The faults of man should never be glamorized." Today's films are often irresponsible and opt for comic he...
Dame Maggie Smith, in her late seventies and still as popular as ever, can do it all; comedy, drama, stage, screen, television. I even saw her on The Carol Burnett Show once, singing and dancing with ease and grace. One of her most iconic roles (long before Harry Potter's Professor Mc...
