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Michael Cimino’s second film The Deer Hunter (1978) is his finest hour as a filmmaker. Sadly he would never again reach the same kind of critical acclaim he received from it. The story is an equally beautiful, haunting and sad look at the effects war has on people’s lives. It’s very much about innocence lost as three friends (Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Savage) become forever changed by their experiences in [read...] 
The industrial steel town of Clairton, PA and the community of Russian-Americans who reside there provide the primary backdrop for Michael Cimino’s existential war epic The Deer Hunter. The lives of the main characters are clearly repetitious. They work at the local steel mill, clock out, hit the bar, guzzle Rolling Rocks, act like nuts, then go home and do it all over again. Two life changing events are about [read...] 
Brown. Jackie Brown. Quentin Tarantino’s throwback to the blaxploitation days is a magnificent LA tale that split the critics and the fans, but is by some considered to be the director’s finest movie. We take a look back at this cult favorite (based on a novel by Elmore Leonard), made possible by the recent availability on BluRay. Click the following soundclip to have some soundtrack grooves while you read…. INTRODUCTION [read...] 
For this new series on FC, we’ll be looking at, or to be more precise, listening to, scores from some of our favorite furious movies to see how they tie into the scenes they are played over. Some of these installments may be just a brief basic review with a track featured in the film, or we might post cues from certain sequences that we’d like to examine a bit [read...] 
“Being right is not a bulletproof vest Freddy!” – Figgs James Mangold‘s 1997 film Copland comes from a different angle in the crime genre taking the good guy/bad guy plotline and flipping it on its ear by dealing with themes of corruption within the police force. In the town of Garrison, New Jersey, a community made up of cops has been established by the ‘tough as nails’ Ray Donlan (Harvey [read...] 
FILM REVIEW When we first see Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) he walks into a taxi cab stand as a ghostly cloud of steam evaporates around him. It’s an entrance of some kind of angel from hell. Travis suffers from insomnia, so he rides around on buses and subways at night. His idea is that being a cabbie will be the perfect job for him. When the interviewer (Joe Spinell) asks [read...] 
After a close brush with death caused by a cocaine overdose in the late 70s, Martin Scorsese felt he was at the end of his career as a director. It wasn’t until his friend Robert DeNiro (Mean Streets) visited him in the hospital with a project based on a book he had shown him years earlier in hopes it would be his next film. Scorsese became inspired to get [read...] 
INTRODUCTION Sergio Leone. Whenever I hear that name I think of cinema at its most exhillerating and wildly creative. His take on Westerns single handedly revitalized the genre in the 1960s. His unique Mediterranean – bred post modern, operatic eye for storytelling was something cinema needed very much at the time. Maybe the most special thing about Leone was the fact he truly cherished the larger than life characters that [read...] 
I was recently told that when telling others about how many films you have seen at a film festival, you are not supposed to count movies you saw in the market (i.e. the films shown to potential distributors) or retrospectives, but only films in competition. Since the three films I have seen this year at the Berlin International Film Festival (aka the Berlinale) were either in the market, a retrospective [read...] 
Today is Martin Scorsese’s Birthday, so we’d like to pay him a tribute with a review of one of our favorite films from his career: In 1973, a new director named Martin Scorsese arrived on the scene and came crashing through the door of cinema with a wildly different look at life in New York City’s Little Italy. Mean Streets was the first breakout film from the kid from [read...] |
   
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