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Missing Sydney PollackSydney Pollack, as an actor, was underappreciated. He was one of those people who made movies better by being in them. |
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"Great Expectations"Do it right or leave the classics alone. |
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FILM COLUMN: 'THE 39 STEPS'Innocence And Espionage In Hitchcock's Classic ThrillerThe incomparable Alfred Hitchcock had a favorite theme: An innocent man is accidentally drawn into an espionage plot... |
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Sex and the CinemaBy: Hannah Blackman I was simply getting my hair colored. My hairdresser said, lowering his voice to a whisper: "Did you see Forgetting Sarah Marshall?" I hadn't yet. |
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James Dean and Montgomery CliftAny gal out there who has ever been deeply in love with the only man who can make her happy….you watch this one and tell me how you felt about the ending. One of the best |
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Night of the IguanaA priest defrocked because of a roll in the vestry with an underage girl is reduced to driving a “religious” tour bus of Baptist ladies through Mexico. |
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FILM COLUMN: 'HOBSON'S CHOICE'The Amazing Charles Laughton Lights Up Hobson's ChoiceGals, do yourself a favor and watch Maggie create the perfect lover and husband. Perhaps there is an unwashed boot-hand in your cellar just waiting for a makeover. |
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Edie SedgwickBy Shannon Haggenbuch"I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood, if you are going to try to communicate. You have |
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Han Shot FirstIsaac Butler expounds on Art vs Profit vs Culture in his fourth installment of: The Enthusiast.Nothing stays the same forever. David Byrne and Brian Eno's album, My Life |
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Night and the CityUnless you wish to walk the earth oblivious to the culture from which you came, Buzzine strongly recommends seeing the great film classics. Part of the reason they have |
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FILM COLUMN: DIGITAL DYNAMICS & NEW SCHOOL REVOLUTIONCreative Paradise Lost: How Both Studio And Union Are Missing The Internet BoatAs creators, we’re in a perfect position to start a true revolution – one that both Karl Marx and Adam Smith would heartily approve. But will we do it? |
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Film Fight VillainsFilm Fight: Villain of the Week No Country for Old Men/There Will be Blood vs. Our Past Film TraditionI love the struggle of good against evil. Take The Exorcist. Give me |
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FILM COLUMN: TWO FIGHTING FACES OF WARTwo Actors, Two Wars - Tommy Lee Jones Evokes Brando 'In The Valley Of Elah'Tommy Lee Jones is no Marlon Brando, but with a quiet, unemotional, understated performance in the film, In the Valley of Elah, he does as much to expose the horror of |
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Film FightBuzzine literary editor Clare Elfman's new series takes a contemporary film and does a pound-for-pound face-off with its classic film counterpart.How I love a mystery wit |
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SHRUNKEN HEADS'Shrunken Heads' and 'Modern Vampires' are my often misunderstood yet dearly cherished bastard children. |
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The Face Behind the FaceYou and I are movie lovers, and I mean lovers, since we are happiest sunk into the comfortable seat of a darkened theater, a big bag of buttered popcorn, a Coke, and for |
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FILM COLUMN: DOING IT MY WAYA Writer/Director's Crusade To Circumvent The Studio SystemWhen I was a teenager, I would go to movies with my buddy, Bob. A woman asked me why Bob and I were always going to the movies. I said, "Because I like movies." |
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My Marlon Brando1940 was my year of "raging hormones." Raging, but not unbridled. Nor ungirdled. Because in 1940, you went on your first date not only in a tight-waisted full-skirted dre |
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Sex in the CinemaYou call it "the cinema." I called it "the movies." It was where I went every Saturday afternoon, holding my kid brother by the hand, carrying a paper bag full of lunch s |