Copywriter, filmmaker, playwright, movie lover.
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
At the heart of the plot of Norman Mailer’s film (but not his novel upon which it is based) are characters waiting for a cocaine deal that will never happen. One party knows this, the other does not. You see it’s all an elaborate scheme to extort 10 million dollars from a spoiled rich kid who yearns to be a coke dealer for no other reason than “fuck it, darling. I think it’s exciting.” When his ex-wife cruelly confesses the…
Translated from by -
Eureka 1983
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"The moment Jack McCann found gold—he died. And that moment lasted a lifetime."
– Final lines from the theatrical trailerNicolas Roeg was arguably “The Czar of the Bizarre” long before Time Magazine bestowed the title upon David Lynch in 1990 after his Palm D’or win for Wild at Heart. Beginning with 1970’s Performance (co-directed by Donald Cammell) and ending with 1985’s Insignificance, Roeg cranked out a rogues’ gallery of idiosyncratic films that explored raw human emotion melded with mysticism…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
The American Friend 1977
"It's December 6th, 1976. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. I know less and less about who I am, or who anybody else is."
-- Tom RipleyWenders' best picture and, interestingly, his only true genre film: an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's third Ripley novel "Ripley's Game". Wenders shows flashes of Hitchcock while simultaneously staying true to his own aesthetic. Robby Muller's sensuous cinematography both captures European cities in the 1970s and makes them seem alien. Blood red…
Translated from by -
Songwriter 1984
Sweet, charming, funny comedy drama that's just the right length (90 minutes). The whole cast is a lot of fun. The music holds up surprisingly well, considering its place and time. Of course, having Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson write the songs is a big plus. The screenplay balances some tight plotting with a loose hangout vibe that fits the world of the story. As much as I am a fan of some of Alan Rudolph's, well, Alan Rudolph films…
Translated from by
