Category Mission Accomplished
James Woods as Lester Diamond
Mission Accomplished: James Woods as Lester Diamond in Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1995) “A friend once told me, “People who live in bad neighborhoods love James Woods.” – Gavin Smith writing in Film Comment Casino, Martin Scorsese’s 1995 Las Vegas opus, recounts the rise and fall of Ace Rothstein (Robert Deniro). It’s the story of a […]
Queen Margot At The Wedding
(Incredible poster right?! Now check out the U.S. version of the Queen Margot poster. Not even close.) Queen Margot (dir. Patrice Chereau,1994) “Frontiersman were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.” – Saul Bellow Like many […]
Curtis and Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) It’s hard to write a positive review. But it’s doubly hard to write a positive review on the internet. Not only do you have a shroud of anonymity which compels you toward negativity, it’s also tough to put the right inflection into text. So when I write […]
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