Features
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2
Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.
Tuesday, June 19 2007
Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking
Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.
Reviews
Thursday, June 23 2011
Moral Ambiguity, Greyness and Imperfection in the Classic, 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
This is, literally and figuratively, a movie about the dirt under the fingernails of its characters, and how everyone has some of that dirt, no matter how they might appear on the outside or to those in society at large.
Monday, November 17 2003
Once Upon a Time in the West: Special Collector's Edition (1968)
Sergio Leone never met a portentous entrance he didn't like.
Blogs
Thursday, January 13 2011
In Defense of a Limited Oeuvre: Sergio Leone
Along with names like Renoir, Welles, Hitchcock, and Kurosawa, Leone deserves a much stronger cinematic status - even with a limited creative canon.
Thursday, June 17 2010
They Call Me Classic: The Man with No Name Trilogy (Blu-ray)
Leone stands as one of the movie's most influential practitioners. He took the standard language in one of the art form's most important genres and redefined it in a way that brought new insight and importance to all aspects of film.
