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Movie Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’
Woody Allen’s new film, Blue Jasmine is a disturbing, engaging, and finally dispassionate study of a woman buckling under the weight of social pressures. Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis (Cate Blanchett),...
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Woody Allen – Should We Judge Art by the Artist’s Personal Life?
Dylan and Mia Farrow I want to start by saying that I am a father and have a daughter; I find the accusations against legendary film director Woody Allen by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow quite...
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Gordon Willis: Master Cinematographer
Marlon Brando as ‘The Godfather’ Some of the most memorable films of the ’70s and ’80s have a dramatic, distinctive look, giving them an immediacy that resonates for viewers even today. And when you...
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Charlie Chaplin, ‘House of Cards,’ and Bertolt Brecht’s Alienation Effect
Charlie Chaplin’s first major talkie, The Great Dictator from 1940, was a vicious satire on Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Fascism in Italy. Chaplin, who wrote, directed and stars in the film,...
View ArticleWin a Copy of the ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ Original Cast Album
With the Tony Awards approaching faster than a speeding bullet, we’ve got a copy to give away of the original cast recording of Bullets Over Broadway, the Woody Allen musical nominated for six Tonys....
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Charles Feldman’s ‘Casino Royale’ (1967) Comes Of Age, Five Decades Later
Casino Royale (1967) It’s been almost five decades since Charles Feldman produced the near-forgotten James Bond spoof, which boasts an interesting mix of good writing, bad writing, over-indulgence,...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: Manhattan (1979)
This past Tuesday, Woody Allen was nominated for two Academy Awards for his latest film, Midnight in Paris (the picture itself also earned a Best Picture nomination, but Allen is not a producer on the...
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Music Review: Various Artists – To Rome With Love – Original Motion Picture...
Since, in many respects, Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love is another in what seems to have become a series of intense love affairs with the great cities of Europe, it is only fitting that its musical...
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Blu-ray Review: To Rome With Love
To Rome With Love begins with a traffic cop (Pierluigi Marchionne) welcoming the audience to the capital of Italy. From there the movie unfolds in characteristic Woody Allen colors, sounds, dialogues,...
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Movie Review: Argo – Best Picture Any Other Year But This One
On the old TV series The A-Team, Mr. T’s character BA used to say, “I pity the fool…”, and you can kind of complete that sentence in regards to this year’s Academy Award nominees by adding, “who goes...
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