Must See
[See discussion under “My Diary” of June 25, 2014]
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Eye of the Beholder, written and directed by Stephan Elliott from a novel by Marc Behm is routine post-modern noir—which is to say that it has no interest in the kind of tight plotting or carefully built up motivation that characterized traditional film noir. Presumably the media sophisticates who patronize movies these days don’t care…
A fresh and amusing take on the career of a real-life gay con-man which suffers from an all-too typical lack of moral focus
Shanghai Noon, directed by Tom Dey from a script by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, is a spoof- Western in the manner of Blazing Saddles but with two main differences from Mel Brooks’s classic. One is that it is 26 years further away from the sort of conventions of the genre that Blazing Saddles was…
A proud vulgarization of Fitzgerald’s novel by Baz Luhrmann
