After Decades As A Hollywood Outsider, Robert Altman Triumphs With Short Cuts

The Work of Altman, Van Sant, Hackford and Woo is Featured at the Film & Video Fest

The Fugitive Evades the Promise of Its Opening Sequence; Untamed Heart Has Soul

The Firm Feels Like A Hung Jury; In the Line of Fire Is Carefully Calibrated

Sound on Film; A New CD Takes Us to the Movies

Of all the many components that go into making a successful, memorable film, the soundtrack is one of the most overlooked. Except for notable exceptions where the music is the […]

Billion Dollar Budgets Are Out; Saint City Is in the Big Easy

Once upon a time (during the 1980s, actually), hot-shot twenty-something Shane Black sold the spec script Lethal Weapon to a major Hollywood studio for a million bucks. Not long after […]

Notes on Passion Fish, Falling Down and Mad Dog and Glory; the 1993 Oscar Watch

A casual and sundry approach to current viewing, along with Oscar predictions in sum… Passion Fish is a quiet, compassionate film. It is funny, insightful and wise. It is also […]

Al Pacino Sniffs For An Oscar in Scent of A Woman; We Love The Lover

A Few Good Men Is Great; Trespass and Chaplin Aren’t

The Easy Joy of Aladdin and the Difficult Triumph of Lorenzo’s Oil