Goya’s Ghosts (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Not quite as bad as some critics said, and yet also a long way from great, Milos Forman turns in …
Social History
The Decline of the Western: Leone, Peckinpah, Penn, and Cimino
I wrote this essay about five years ago, having viewed several “revisionist” westerns in quick succession, including the much-lauded The …
Cadillac Records (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
More a mosaic of a time and place than a bio-pic, and perhaps all the better for it, Cadillac Records …
Eight Miles High (Das Wilde Leben, 2007) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
. Well-directed but utterly shallow biography of ’60s model, hanger-on, and faux-radical Uschi Obermaier, who flees her home town and …
Ragtime (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. E.L. Doctorow’s great novel tore through its chosen window in American history like a pep-pill-stuffed jitterbugger; Milos Forman’s film …
The Girl In White (1952) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
John Sturges moves out of his normally macho territory to handle unusual material for the time; the tale of Emily …
