Norman Jewison: 1926-2024
Eulogizing “Canada’s greatest director”
John Carpenter, Halloween Maestro
The aesthetic qualities of John Carpenter’s films are certainly worth enumerating. My interest here is in how those films and their maker transformed Hollywood
TV Flashback: DARK DREAMERS
I’m not sure how Stanley Wiater managed to convince a Canadian TV channel to broadcast a show comprised entirely of interviews with horror writers and filmmakers, but I’m glad he did
CIMINO: THE DEER HUNTER, HEAVEN’S GATE AND THE PRICE OF A VISION
A frustrating and inconclusive book, although that’s an inevitability give its subject: the notoriously hermetic Michael Cimino
Horror Novels by Horror Moviemakers
The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT
Anyone doubting that the early 1990s were a golden age for cinema need only view DAZED AND CONFUSED, or read this oral history
On THE WHITE HOTEL
THE WHITE HOTEL is one of the few examples of literary fiction that can truly be said to have just about everything
GEOFF MURPHY: A LIFE ON FILM
An engaging memoir, and certainly one of most interesting and underrated film books of the 2010s
Alan Parker: 1944-2020
I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31
TONY SCOTT: A FILMMAKER ON FIRE
As a longtime fan of the late Tony Scott, whose directorial output includes TRUE ROMANCE and CRIMSON TIDE, I find this book a must-read by default