9/11 and The Media
9/11 in the media: the (amost) good, the (mostly) bad and (extremely) ugly
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
Alan Parker: 1944-2020
I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (1980) / Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone’s reverence for THE DEMOLISHED MAN is evident in this, one of the most famous unfilmed screenplays in existence
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (late 1970s) / Brian De Palma
This undated late 1970s screenplay is one of several never-filmed takes on Alfred Bester’s 1951 science fiction masterpiece THE DEMOLISHED
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
KINGS AND DESPERATE MEN
PRISONER fans take note: this 1981 Canadian production reunites the principal actors of that immortal series Patrick McGoohan and Alexis Kanner in an arty suspense drama
SEIZURE
You’d be hard-pressed to find many Oliver Stone trademarks in this, his 1974 debut. It’s not a great or even very good film, being amateurish and pretentious—a deadly combination
KILLER INSTINCT
In the category of books about moviemaking this one for me ranks among the top of the heap
THE HAND
The second film directed by Oliver Stone, made before he became the Oliver Stone we know. It’s a so-so Michael Caine starrer about an errant severed hand