As part of our world where white people have turned against immigrants because they are racist pieces of shit, it's worth looking at some of the history of this issue, including in film. Here is a 1965 British TV special on the issue. At first,...
LGM film club
When I discovered that Scarecrow exists, i.e. a movie starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman from 1973 that I had never even heard of before, I had two thoughts. First,.
What if the beaning death of Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays in 1920 was part of an occult plan to make the Yankees the dominant franchise.
Is there a greater French director than Jean-Pierre Melville? There's a lot of great French film directors, no question. But for my money, only Agnes Varda and Eric Rohmer mean more to me than Melville. I've covered a couple of films before his this series--the...
I rewatched Wes Anderson's 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox again and I have to say that it might be my very favorite of his films. Now, I get it if.
I'm not saying this is the best work Richard Pryor ever did, but his bit on working in a mob-owned club in Youngstown does include some outstanding impressions of those.
I've been occasionally revisiting Woody Allen's best films after quite awhile off. I've long been on the record about not making my decisions about what art to enjoy based on the personal behavior of the artist and the recent discoveries of somewhere between creepy and...
Is Wong Kar-Wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love the perfect movie? I mean, it has as good a claim as any. It's not only his best film, it's.
I hadn't seen Mario Monicelli's 1963 film The Organizer in years. I remembered loving it but hadn't seen since I initially watched it. And yeah, it's great. Starring Marcello Mastroianni.
For blog-based reasons that will become clear soon enough, I had reason to go back and watch some of Terrence Malick's films. Badlands and The Thin Red Line are big favorites of mine, but I hadn't watched Days of Heaven in years. And really, it's...
I wasn't sure if I wanted to revisit one of my all-time favorite films, Elio Petri's 1970 classic Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion in the age of Trump. But.
I've been having my annual rewatch of some of my favorite films and enjoying it as much always. One film I watched that I hadn't seen in many years was.