What is Ran? Akira Kurosawa period epic is not an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Mieko Harada pictured. “Critical cribbing” is a term I coined in regard to the…
Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad: Intertextuality via cinematic ‘touchstone.’ Forget all prior claims you’ve read about Alain Resnais,” 90-minute, black-and-white effort L’année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at…
Anthony Steffen biography cover (top); Anthony Steffen in The Last Tomahawk with Daniel Martin. Anthony Steffen may be a name best remembered by Spaghetti Western aficionados, but in his day, from the…
Betsy Blair, best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Ernest Borgnine’s love interest in the 1955 Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning drama Marty, and for her marriage to Gene Kelly,…
Il Grido 1957: Michelangelo Antonioni at his Neo-Realist best So much attention has been paid to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni’s films from the 1960s that his earlier Neo-Realist efforts have…
Michelangelo Antonioni, the film master of modern alienation, despair, and ennui, was the third important personage of world cinema to die in the last three days – Ingmar Bergman and…
‘Blow-Up’ with David Hemmings and Veruschka. ‘Blow-Up’ movie analysis: Michelangelo Antonioni creates great work of art and philosophy Made in Great Britain in 1966, the flat-out great Blow-Up (in the…
Jane Birkin. Jane Birkin Style: Birkin to direct, write, star in autobiopic According to London’s Sunday Times (May 14), Jane Birkin, “whose career highlights include simulating sex in the song…
Michelangelo Antonioni movies at LACMA “Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni,” is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) retrospective honoring the Italian filmmaker, whose body of work includes revered classics…
The Other Side of the Street movie: Marcos Bernstein’s tale of a one-woman neighborhood watch who may have witnessed a murder is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, with Fernanda…
Frozen movie (2005): Starring Shirley Henderson as a young woman in search of her missing sister, Juliet McKoen’s flawed yet disturbing metaphysical thriller treads the razor-thin line separating sanity from…