Film
Film: The Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1948) gets off to a rocky start and never fully recovers, although it…
January 18, 2021-
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FilmFilm: Mank
Hollywood can’t resist making films about itself, but rarely are they executed with such moxie and vision as David…
December 9, 2020 -
Film, SpiesFilm: The Stranger
Considering Orson Welles’ pedigree, I was hoping for a bit more from The Stranger (1946), a creepy small-town potboiler…
January 15, 2019 -
FilmFilm: The Other Side of the Wind
Wow, what a a fascinating glance backwards at cinematic history. The Other Side of the Wind (2018), Orson Welles’…
January 3, 2019 -
Film, Spies, Spy 100 ProjectSpy 100, #1: The Third Man
The Carol Reed-Graham Greene collaboration that worked so well in Our Man in Havana works even better in The…
December 7, 2015 -
Film, Spies, Spy 100 ProjectSpy 100, #63: The Kremlin Letter
John Huston’s The Kremlin Letter (1970) is a sordid, convoluted tangle, and possibly one of the genre’s most cynical…
November 4, 2012 -
FilmFilm: Catch-22
I watched Catch-22 (1970) about twenty years ago, and remembered it as a sluggish, disappointing adaptation of the brilliant…
October 8, 2012