Then Playing — Sorcerer; That Cold Day in the Park; Trouble Every Day
Reviews of films directed by William Friedkin, Robert Altman, and Claire Denis Continue reading Then Playing — Sorcerer; That Cold Day in the Park; Trouble Every Day
Reviews of films directed by William Friedkin, Robert Altman, and Claire Denis Continue reading Then Playing — Sorcerer; That Cold Day in the Park; Trouble Every Day
Reviews of films directed by Robert Altman, David Cronenberg, and Akiva Schaffer Continue reading Then Playing — Fool for Love; Rabid; The Naked Gun
Reviews of films directed by Steven Soderbergh, David Cronenberg, and Robert Altman Continue reading Then Playing — Presence; Fast Company; Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Reviews of films directed by Tony Bill, Michael Mohan, and Robert Altman Continue reading Then Playing — Five Corners; Immaculate; A Perfect Couple
Reviews of films directed by Lee Chang-Dong, Carson Lund, and Robert Altman Continue reading Then Playing — Green Fish; Eephus; Secret Honor
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2023). Kelly Reichardt demonstrates again that she’s a modern master of small, resoundingly human stories. Working from a screenplay coauthored with her regular writing partner, Jon Raymond, Reichardt tells the story of Lizzy (Michelle Williams), a … Continue reading Then Playing — Showing Up; Dear White People; California Split
Ashes and Embers (Haile Gerima, 1982). Made around forty years ago, Haile Gerima’s experimental drama opens with Black men driving in a city who get pulled over police officers that immediately escalate the situation, presuming guilt as a default for … Continue reading Then Playing — Ashes and Embers; Brewster McCloud; A Star is Born
I don’t have much to add to the review below (originally published at my former online home), except to note that every great director deserves to have a final film as perfect of a closing statement as this one is … Continue reading From the Archive: A Prairie Home Companion
Recent weeks have seen an online avalanche of top ten lists from movie critics of all stripes. I live in the frigid north, however, and it takes certain cinematic offerings a little longer to fight their way through the sleet and … Continue reading From the Archive: Top Ten Movies of 2006
And here we are at the top of my list of the best films of 1992, at least at the time of our broadcast. As I note in the write-up, my on air cohort and I agreed on the title that deserved to be called the top cinematic offering of that year. In fact, that was remarkably commonplace through the years. Basically every time we talked about top films of any given year on the radio, we were in complete agreement about the #1 position, a trends that persisted at least a couple years past the end of the show. … Continue reading From the Archive: The Player