Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1977) – At this point, Spielberg hadn’t quite mastered his balance between grand scope and human interest; it’s overly big with…
An Education (2008, dir. Lone Scherfig) – Everyone seemed to love this one when it came out, and not without good reason. The positioning is what’s interesting about this one:…
The Man Who Knew Too Little (dir. John Amiel, 1997) – This one’s always been fun and always will be. In the 90s, Bill Murray swung back and forth between…
In Wes Anderson’s corpus of work, The Life Aquatic may just be the archetype, the consolidation of style & theme, the compressing of all-things-Wes into one film that overwhelms and…
A long-time favorite, Groundhog Day is one of those annual viewings that’s difficult to view with objectivity. Along with The Muppets Take Manhattan (yep), it’s one of the first films…
Came finally to one of the must-sees of 2009: Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, a film that got a reception typical to those made by American “auteurs” lately. If…
To the tune of a free-floating yet extremely repetitive (and fitting) jazz soundtrack, Bill Murray seems to inhabit a parallel and somehow intersecting character in Broken Flowers with that of…
