Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A Time to Love and a Time to Die found Douglas Sirk, near the end…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Harakiri and The Trial of Joan of Arc
Japan, 1630. A lone samurai appears at the gates of the Ii clan, in Edo.…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The House of Mirth
When we first see Lily Bart, the doomed, honorable social butterfly at the heart of…
Children Can Be Murder: Jake Gittes on The Butcher Boy and Eve’s Bayou (Year of the Month)
I should make it clear upfront that the only reason I combined these films for…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Lost Highway
[There are SPOILERS for Lost Highway at your house right now.] David Lynch has…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The Pirate
“Don’t call me ‘pure soul,’ it irritates me! Underneath this prim exterior there are depths…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The Sting
A consummate entertainer of a movie and a rare uplifting critical and audience smash in…
Journeys to Nowhere: Jake Gittes on The Rain People and Easy Rider
“We should be talking about The Rain People more than we do”, observed Scott Tobias…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The Deer Hunter
The following includes SPOILERS for The Deer Hunter. More than any other American…