Remember the Night (1940)
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint Eastwood from John Berendt’s best seller stars John Cusack as John Kelso, a journalist sent to Savannah by Town and Country magazine to cover one of the highlights of the social season there, a Christmas party given by Mr Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey). But…
Almost a pastiche of a Truffaut-like coming of age picture, but without Truffaut’s magic touch
A delightful return to the — amusingly tweaked — conventions of silent film for an unexpectedly moving if familiar love story
Play It To the Bone, directed by Ron Shelton, is a Woody Harrelson movie in every sense of the term — that is it is full of macho posturing at the same time that it attempts to make a joke (a rather tired joke by now, you might think) about male stupidity. This is how…