Will This Franchise Finally Launch the New Age of the Modern Day Female Heroine Archetype?
Director: FRANCIS LAWRENCE/2015
With Mockingjay Part 2, the popul...
Beyond Trash Art
DIRECTOR: John Waters/1981
The 2015 Wisconsin Film Festival ended on a high note, or perhaps I should say a sweet aroma, with its Thursday nig...
Altered Realities
DIRECTOR: Robert Wiene/German/1920
The 2015 Wisconsin Film Festival (April 9th – 16th) continued for this film fan with yesterday morning’s s...
A Fine Wellesian Madness
DIRECTOR: Orson Welles/1938
2015 marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of George Orson Welles and this year’s Wisconsin Film Festiv...
The Problem of Johnny
DIRECTOR: MIKE LEIGH/1993
Take the image of a scruffy, dour figure dressed in a black trenchcoat standing ruefully in the trash-strewn th...
The Un-Romanticized Era of Depression Anti-Nostalgia
DIRECTED BY WALTER HILL/1975
A freight train comes whistling ’round the bend carrying, along with its sl...
An Historical Perspective
DIRECTOR: Robert Bresson/French/1956
The original trailer announcing the 1956 release of Robert Bresson’s fourth film, A Man Escap...
A Classical View of Contemporary Romance
DIRECTOR: Eric Rohmer/French/1992
In everyday life we are perhaps more prone to accept, unthinkingly, the happensta...
A French Director's Vision of America
DIRECTOR; Jean-Pierre Melville/French/1959
“Whenever Americans are looking for a man, they keep three words in mind… ‘...
Fleeting Time in the Hands of its Fairy Tale Creators
DIRECTOR; Jean Cocteau/French/1946
“I wonder. I ask myself whether or not these exhausting days may not b...
