2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST at 35
On the most controversial film of our time
CINEMA SPECULATION
Passionate and entertaining writing on cinema by the one and only Quentin Tarantino
Ray Liotta and The Slide
The May 26, 2022 demise of actor Ray Liotta has thrown one aspect of his career into extremely sharp relief
Thoughts on the Cannes Film Festival (From One who’s Never Been There)
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival has just concluded, and based on what I’ve read it seems to have been largely uneventful
FANTASIA OF COLOR IN EARLY CINEMA
A wholly unique and eye-popping pictorially oriented look at the silent movie era with a most unexpected emphasis: color.
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
MADE MEN
You simply cannot go wrong with this book, which explores Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS
CHASING THE LIGHT
Speaking as one who quite literally grew up watching his films, I couldn’t help but gravitate toward this, Oliver Stone’s long-in-coming memoir
ARE SNAKES NECESSARY?
This irresistibly pulpy psycho-thriller is the first novel by film legend Brian De Palma (co-written with girlfriend Susan Lehman)