Director Robert Allan Ackerman’s very typically American 1994 rites-of-passage movie is sentimental, often satisfying and ultimately warm and cosy, like a log fire in winter. After playing the matriarch Mrs March in the 1994 Little Women, Susan […]
Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1971 drama stars Tuesday Weld in an affecting performance as a strange girlish young woman named Noah, a disturbed, free spirited flower child living alone in New York City. She is locked into […]
Director Abel Ferrara’s inventive and disturbing film is an impressionistic kaleidoscopic look at the events of the last day in the life of the controversial and provocative gay Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. Like it subject, […]
Director Charles F Reisner’s 1928 comedy is the last great Buster Keaton silent movie. It takes its place along with The General (1926) at the peak of his creativity. All involved in the film agreed that he […]
Mike Nichols’s grown-up 1971 American comedy-drama film Carnal Knowledge is based on a witty screenplay by Jules Feiffer, and stars Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret. The US Supreme Court ruled that the […]
Co-story-writer/producer/director Bob Rafelson’s greatly admired 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. It stars Jack Nicholson, who is stupendous as Robert Eroica Dupea, a middle-class musician drop-out who, along […]
Director Terry Gilliam’s truly appealing 1991 comedy fantasy drama is an impressively ambitious, deeply heart-tugging movie. Jeff Bridges stars as a mean-minded but popular radio DJ who falls apart as suicidally despondent after a mad […]
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