Guest blogger Julie Sesnovich writes: They can’t all be winners. Even the strongest, smartest, most talented directors will misfire occasionally. It happens, and it’s forgivable. But what about the works that lie between masterpiece and failure? The films that, far…
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In This Our Life: A Forward Thinking Film For 1942
In This Our Life: I sought out this movie thanks to an essay by Stanley Crouch, which focuses on the unusually progressive racial politics of the film, and offers it as a counterpoint to Gone With the Wind, which Crouch…
Read more →The Maltese Falcon: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
If you have never seen The Maltese Falcon, you have deprived yourself of something truly spectacular. You should fix that. Immediately. The granddaddy of film noir–the biggest and best of them all–this is one of those landmark films which ushered in…
Read more →The Men Who Painted The Man Who Would Be King
Guest blogger Peter Cook writes: The Man Who Would Be King is one of my favorite films, and another of those rare movies where every element falls into place with craftsman-like precision. From the director, John Huston, and the magnificent cast that stretches…
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