Features
Thursday, June 28 2012
Essential Film Performances - 2012 Edition Part Nine
PopMatters follows up our hugely popular 100 Essential Female and Male Performances feature and 2010 update with 50 additions to the essentials list. Part nine features Frank Sinatra, Rosalind Russell and more...
Reviews
Wednesday, March 28 2012
What Is True? Or, How Much of It Is True? Otto Preminger's Classic: 'Anatomy of a Murder'
Anatomy of a Murder is many things, equal parts courtroom drama, murder mystery, and at times, humorous and light, but above all else, it's a love letter to the law.
Wednesday, March 23 2005
Laura (1944)
Waldo is so deliciously dark and mean-spirited, so loquaciously intolerant of those he deems beneath him, that he's delightful.
Monday, February 7 2005
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
The film's primary appeal is the bizarre turn by Noel Coward as Wilson (one of several 'eccentrics' the film trots out to otherize London even as it pathologizes at least one of the yanks).
Tuesday, December 9 2003
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Draws much of its visual and dramatic effectiveness from Preminger's intelligent use of the screen process of the 1950s, Cinemascope.
