Five more feature films of great interest and their links, lovingly chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.
Film Feature: Walking through Director John Ford’s Childhood Home — in Portland, ME
“Did you know that film director John Ford lived in your apartment when a boy?”
Film Remembrance: Death of a Bible “Salesman”
The cinema verite masterpiece is among the first non-fiction theatrical features to chronicle “regular” people going about their everyday lives.
Film Review: “An Easy Girl” — Finally, a Worthwhile Movie on Netflix
So what’s up with the 16 year old Naima, who has been mostly watching and listening? Is it time for her to become an “adult”?
Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Campus Best, Post 1980
Let’s experience college nostalgically and vicariously, with this pick of the best college movies of the last 35 years.
Film Review: Yet More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 8
Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.
Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Campus Best, Pre-Pre-Covid
A dozen feature films — none made less than 35 years ago — that best capture the American campus experience and spirit.
Film Interview: Budd Schulberg on Being a Screenwriter in Hollywood
“It’s really time for us to scrape off this cynicism and take a good hard look at what is happening in this country. There’s so much fakery and we don’t mind it.”
Book Review: “Hollywood Babylon II” Revisited
Hollywood Babylon II is almost as addictive, seductive, compulsively page-turning as its inglorious Hollywood Babylon predecessor..
Critical Commentary: The Shaky Life of a Film Critic
Cinema reviewing exists as a respected profession only as long as the traditional role of the critic is honored.