The industrial steel town of Clairton, PA and the community of Slavic-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 […]
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FILM REVIEW In between making his hit films The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, Francis Ford Coppola chose to develop an original screenplay he had written several years earlier. This was, like his 1969 film The Rain People another of his smaller, more personal works and very much an example […]
Two of our favorite film classics are hitting Blu Ray! Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 conspiracy masterpiece The Conversation starring Gene Hackman and David Lynch’s 1986 psychological mystery thriller Blue Velvet starring Kyle McLachlan, Isabella Rosselini, Laura Dern and Dennis Hopper. Both these movies have garnered a devoted following from film […]
In between making The Godfather 1 and 2, Director Francis Ford Coppola made another classic that’s not quite as popular but every bit as great as those. The Conversation stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a surveillance expert who finds himself at odds with a client when his latest job […]