Scott Cooper has made an impressive body of work as a director over the last decade, starting with Crazy Heart. His heart is clearly in the downbeat auteur-led films of the '70s, which can be a difficult direction for a director in today's climate of studio tentpole films. As a result, Hostiles was financed by independent investors, … Continue reading Hostiles – Blu-Ray Review
The Awful Truth was the first film to really show the world the persona Cary Grant carefully created for himself. It was a delicious mixture of debonair demeanour and a sense of never taking himself too seriously. However, like most performers Grant was a complicated individual with numerous neuroses, and rumours about his sexuality were constant … Continue reading The Awful Truth – Blu-Ray Review
Until now, The Touch had been one of the hardest to find of the films directed by Ingmar Bergman. I've always had an ambivalence towards his films, preferring those that have elements of surrealism in them like Persona or Hour of the Wolf over his dramatic chamber pieces. He also has always come off as an insufferable … Continue reading The Touch – Blu-Ray Review
La Chinoise is the first of Godard's flat-out Maoist diatribes against the bourgeoisie and "American imperialism," and it's undeniably his best and most watchable of these. At this point Godard was becoming increasingly insufferable as a human being and a filmmaker because he adopted this comical understanding of Maoism. This era is brilliantly depicted in the woefully underrated Redoubtable, which … Continue reading La Chinoise – Blu-Ray Review
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge is a two-part documentary on the history of Rolling Stone magazine, which was first published in 1967. The documentary is co-directed by Alex Gibney, who is probably the great documentarian of our time. He takes a similar approach to his previous work on Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, using the history … Continue reading Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge – DVD Review
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