MY TOP FILMS OF…
People love lists because they stimulate discussion and debate. I don’t enjoy compiling them because they are so arbitrary,…
STAR WARS: VARIATIONS ON…
I saw Star Wars in 1977 at the Loews State Theater in Manhattan, now long-gone. Little did I know that the…
THE REPORT: UNCOVERING HIDDEN…
All the President’s Men was a game-changer when it came out in 1976 and remains a yardstick by which other…
MARRIAGE STORY: AN EMOTIONAL…
Watching Marriage Story is a transcendent experience. I don’t know how someone puts such an intensely personal story on the screen,…
FORTY YEARS OF TELLURIDE
You may have read about the headline-making films that played this past weekend at the Telluride Film Festival. Many…
JOSEPH PULITZER: THE VOICE…
Joseph Pulitzer was a social reformer and a scandal-monger at the same time. That his name lives on as…
BLACKkKLANSMAN: POTENT AND POWERFUL
Spike Lee is an audacious filmmaker who crosses boundaries and deliberately blurs drama and reality. Never has this been…
