Karel Reisz’s 1974 drama The Gambler looks at the obsessive compulsive sickness of gambling addiction. James Caan stars as Axel Freed, a highly intellectual college professor who teaches classic literature. What’s most intriguing is his dual nature which has him explaining the writing of Dostoyevski one minute then carousing with […]
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“Why don’t you call me sometime when you have no class?” There was something about the decadent 80s and comedy films that went together perfectly. One of my favorites that I saw at the movies in 1986 was BACK TO SCHOOL. Rodney Dangerfield, the late great legendary comedian stars as […]
An old fashioned sepia toned Paramount Pictures logo at the start of Roman Polanski’s 1974 Neo Noir masterpiece Chinatown acts as a cinematic portal that sends us back into the past. The romantic horns of “Love Theme From Chinatown (The Main Title) by composer Jerry Goldsmith are enchanting as the […]
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 […]