‘Last Screening’: when movie love is taken to extremes
The icy French horror film, “Last Screening,” is about about movie watching carried to a dangerous extreme by obsessives who would just as soon replace the reality of life with a fantasy life fueled by...
View Article‘Wild Strawberries’: the Bergman film Woody Allen remade
It’s going to be fun — and very nostalgic — to introduce a “Critic’s Choice” screening of the 1957 Ingmar Bergman classic “Wild Strawberries” tonight at the beautifully restored Bijou Theatre in...
View Article‘Rear Window’: Alfred Hitchcock’s most entertaining film?
When the much-discussed, once-a-decade Sight and Sound film poll recently named “Vertigo” the greatest movie in history, I wasn’t as distressed as some people by the fact that the 1958 James Stewart-...
View ArticleIs Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ the greatest film ever made?
When the British Film Institute journal Sight and Sound announced the results of its once-a-decade poll of international film critics, many were shocked by the fact that “Citizen Kane” lost the...
View Article‘Struck by Lightning’: a fresh take on high school
It’s not surprising that young actor Chris Colfer would write a juicy role for himself in the new independent film, “Struck by Lightning.” What is surprising is the sensitivity Colfer and director...
View Article‘The Verdict’: Robert Redford’s loss, Paul Newman’s gain
It’s always fun to think about initial movie casting ideas that didn’t pan out, and what the iconic films involved would have been like with the original choices. It’s hard to imagine Claudette Colbert...
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