Film on the Internet: MEN IN BLACK (1997) on Amazon Prime
Directing a movie has been compared to being a general, and that becomes even more…
Grant Nebel ("wallflower")
A Silver Age (2007) commenter from the AV Club who crossed over to the Dissolve at its inception in 2013. You can follow his writings here and in the comment section at The Dissolve, and his music on his Soundcloud channel (see any Soundtracking here for that).
Articles:
Michael Mann’s Blue Period: BLACKHAT (2015)
Like Thomas Pynchon, Michael Mann has made a series of genre works in his later…
Film on the Internet: CATCH-22 (1970) on Amazon and Google Play
Adapting any great work from one form into another (here, a novel into a movie)…
Scenic Route: FRENCH CONNECTION II (1975)
Action movies do not draw their unholy power from spectacle but from intensity, and I…
Film on the Television: THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974) on Sundance TV
Joseph Sargent’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three makes a nice companion piece to William Friedkin’s The French…
New Modes for Old Truths: the Beloved Community of PARIS IS BURNING (1990)
If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, it would be a fun world.…
Film on the Internet: CONSPIRACY (2001) on Amazon Prime
Conspiracy has about as little action as can be; the stage directions for the entire…
Film on the Internet: THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994) on Amazon Prime
MISS TALMADGE! Take a letter. Good morning, All-Critics-Who-Somehow-Thought-This-Movie-Wasn’t-Awesome. In your misbegotten souls (and I call…
Soundtracking #17: TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)
The occasional podcast on music and movies. Intro music: “Coffee Shop” by Elliot Goldenthal from…
Decomposing in Real Time: Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan
There are only victims. (last line of Scott Turow’s Pleading Guilty) The modern industrial age…