Faces (1968)
There is a point near the end of John Cassavetes’ 1968 film Faces in which one character utters to another after a near death experience; “Honey, it’s absolutely ludicrous how […]
There is a point near the end of John Cassavetes’ 1968 film Faces in which one character utters to another after a near death experience; “Honey, it’s absolutely ludicrous how […]
“Who remembers all that?” asks the narrator of Chris Marker’s 1983 filmic essay Sans Soleil; “History throws its empty bottles out the window”. A gesture as playful as it is […]
Lawrence of Arabia is a film that would never get made today, and in the current system of large scale, big budget film making will more than likely never be […]
The greatest con of The Brothers Bloom, a film concerned with two brothers renowned for their grand fraudulent antics, is that it isn’t necessarily about the central heist contained in […]
Arthur Agee and William Gates start out on even playing fields. Both of them are promising young, African American basketball players from Chicago who dream of playing in the NBA. […]
The montage that opens The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford sets the tone for the myth making that is to be slowly unravelled as the film […]
As much as I would like to hope that most of these films will be released in Australia in 2012, I’m fairly certain that we will only be seeing perhaps […]
Herein lies my attempt to work through the backlog of Criterion Collection Blu-Rays & DVDs I have accumulated. Each week (hopefully) I will attempt to write an article on a […]
Herein lies my attempt to work through the backlog of Criterion Collection Blu-Rays & DVDs I have accumulated. Each week (hopefully) I will attempt to write an article on a […]
Be forewarned, as these are classic films I will not be holding back on spoilers. You have been warned… In creating this podcast, our original intention was to use it […]