The epic represents time beyond living memory, ancient and eternal, a place reserved for the gods themselves. Sometimes man interjects himself between, around, and throughout such timeless affairs. These matters usual concern Kings and Queens, wars, and moral decisions that affect the fate of the entire world. The mystical mixes with the historical and legends […]
Traditionally, the Hollywood Western was one of the most preeminent and stirring of genres. Set in the late 19th century, attentive to Old West myth-making, folk heroes, and morality tales, it was an altogether American invention. In Hollywood’s Golden Age the Western was exceedingly popular, nothing else was as rootin’, tootin’, and crowd pleasin’. Directors […]
Eroticism: one word, two semantic aspects. There’s a both exhilarating and painful stir in having, approaching, or even fantasizing an erotic interplay. Such sensations touch those very thin nerves that bond the most sensitive and irritable areas of our mind and body, sometimes delicately yet sometimes brutally. But a sexual stimulation outreaches the limits of […]
In recent years, specialty production studios like A24 and Blumhouse have taken chances on unique against-the-grain horror films. Films like Hereditary and Get Out, once destined to be rarely seen cult films, have been successful in finding a wider audience while still committing to an artistic authenticity. With the resurgence in popularity of original horror […]
Many years ago in the introduction to her book of capsule reviews, 5001 Nights at the Movies, the noted film critic Pauline Kael rendered one of her (numerous) opinionated opinions by stating that anyone seeing a film on television, whether it be a live broadcast or via video, was committing a cultural crime with themselves […]
“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.” – Jean Renoir The critical designation of three films as a Trilogy is made to emphasize the Director’s fixation on a particular subject or his development and treatment of a theme or style. The directors that have […]