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