Catching Up On The Maverick Auteur, 100 Years Strong
In 1975, the American Film Institute saw fit to honor Orson Welles with a lifetime achievement award. Well...
The Swedish Great Will Crush Your Head
He’s played both Christ and the Devil. (The Greatest Story Ever Told; Needful Things) He’s exorciesed evil and has been ...
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...
Our Crew Weighs In On Seeing Essential De Niro Films For The First Time
Brian De Palma discovered him, Martin Scorsese made him an icon. On screen, he is ...
A Classical View of Contemporary Romance
DIRECTOR: Eric Rohmer/French/1992
In everyday life we are perhaps more prone to accept, unthinkingly, the happensta...
From his home in Madison, Wisconsin, Justin is well on his way to achieving his childhood goal of seeing every movie ever made. A devotee of literature and cinema, he's here to share what he's picked up along his lonely cinematic path of the “omniviewer”.
Justin's Top Ten Films of All Time: