A BIT OF CRUMPET PT. 2
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Taxi Driver. Death Wish. The Warriors. These, and more, New York set films really captured…
A BIT OF CRUMPET PT. 1
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. I’ve always been a sucker for films about Robin Hood. Maybe it’s because I was…
TRAIN DREAMS
If there is a lovelier, more heartfelt film than Train Dreams now playing in theaters I have yet to see it. The protagonist is a wide-eyed innocent, an unworldly loner who venerates the gifts of Mother Nature, as well…
NUREMBERG
Nuremberg is not a documentary, nor is it a remake of Stanley Kramer’s 1961 Oscar winner Judgment at Nuremberg. It is contemporary in its dialogue and editing style, as if to proclaim right up front that this is not…
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S FRANKENSTEIN
This is the movie Guillermo del Toro was born to make. He first read Mary Shelley’s novel as a boy and it has informed everything he has done since then. Del Toro admits that he only started working on…
