Title: “Julien Donkey-Boy”
Filmmaker: Harmony Korine
Year: 1999
Starring: Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog, Evan Neumann
About: The first American film to receive Dogma ‘95 certification (though many of the Dogma rules devised by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg are actually broken), “Julien…
Title: “Two-Lane Blacktop”
Director: Monte Hellman
Writers: Will Corry and Rudolph Wurlitzer from a story by Will Corry
Year: 1971
Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird
About: Featuring the only film performances from James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, “Two-Lane Blacktop” is…
Title: “All That Jazz”
Director: Bob Fosse
Writers: Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse
Year: 1979
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking
About: Equal parts uplifting, hilarious, heartbreaking, “All That Jazz” is a semi-autobiographical examination of the…
Joaquin Phoenix, looking very Zach Galifianakis with an unruly beard and dirty hair, showed up on last night’s “Late Show” to let everyone know that rumors of his substance abuse problems are probably true. Or maybe this was just another…
Title: “Jackie Brown”
Written and directed by: Quentin Tarantino (From the Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch)
Year: 1997
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert DeNiro
About: One might call Quentin Tarantino “the…
Title: “The 400 Blows”
Director: François Truffaut
Writers: François Truffaut and Marcel Moussy
Year: 1959
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay
About: One of the first films of the French New Wave, “The 400 Blows”…
Today I’m trying a new format for Clip of the Day posts. Hope you enjoy
Title: “The Verdict”
Year: 1982
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: David Mamet (from the novel by Barry Reed)
Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, and Jack Warden…
In the most recent episode of “Flight of the Conchords,” Jemaine and Brett, vanquished by poverty, try their hands at male prostitution (the results are predictably hilarious). One scene is an obvious nod, and almost faithful reenactment, of a scene…
Reading all too often insufferable New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s op-ed on the inauguration ceremony the other day, I realized that she and I were reminded of the same thing while watching President Obama’s speech (below), that in its…
Before CGI made the endlessly long tracking shots of movies like “Children of Men” and “Irreversible” possible, they had to do it the old fashion way. In the case of Orson Welles’ 1958 film “Touch of Evil,” that meant putting…
