After guiding a lengthy unit in the subject of cinematic viewer engagement, everything is now visible only through that lens. The opening sequence of The French Connection could not be…
Night Moves probably qualifies as a “neo-noir,” one of those dark seventies films with the proverbial private eye who gets involved in a case that turns out to have a…
The second, and decidedly superior product, from Robert Benton last weekend. In the recent Feast of Love, Benton traded in the solid, veteran cast from his previous film Twilight for…
A respite from respite films (coughHowToStealAMillion) brings one back to less confection-y, more complexity-works such as the archetypal “art film” by Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation. Considered a masterwork of…
