Back in 1989, Todd Solondz made a Woody-Allenesque comedy, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, for a studio—and promptly swore off filmmaking for the next few years. He was a ESL teacher to Russian immigrants in NY in-between that project and his second feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse, in 1995. He only gave filmmaking another shot because … Continue reading Welcome to the Dollhouse – Blu-Ray Review
Walking the Edge was directed by actress Nancy Kwan’s husband, Norbert Meisel, as a vehicle for his wife. Meisel’s past before this film included directing a couple of pornos as well as directing and acting in other films, mainly in the crime, war and sexploitation vein. This one is a good, low-budget ‘80s crime thriller … Continue reading Walking the Edge – Blu-Ray Review
Death of a Gunfighter is best known as the first film “directed” by “Allen Smithee.” The real directors were Robert Totten and Don Siegel. Totten left the film and was followed on set by Siegel, a professional and relatively decent guy who didn’t feel like he had done enough work to deserve credit for the … Continue reading Death of a Gunfighter – Blu-Ray Review
The Sisters Brothers is so far the only English-language film directed by Jacques Audiard, one of the greatest contemporary French filmmakers, and boasts a great cast. Audiard wowed the world with the film A Prophet in 2010 but has continued to be incredibly consistent. It starts with a bog-standard Western plot, where two brothers are … Continue reading The Sisters Brothers – UHD Review
The Night of the Following Day is a very weird 1969 film with Marlon Brando, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno, based on a novel by pulp writer Lionel White. White also wrote Clean Break, which later became The Killing by Stanley Kubrick, as well as the novel that Pierrot Le Fou is very loosely based … Continue reading The Night of the Following Day – Blu-Ray Review
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