Why ‘Paris, Texas’ is Harry Dean Stanton’s Most Satisfying Role
Harry Dean Stanton had grown tired of the roles he’d been playing since starting out as a screen actor in the mid-to-late 50s. He said...
Category: Retro Reviews
‘Donkey Skin’ Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at Jacques Demy’s Gorgeous Fairytale
If a radiant detour from reality contributed to the appeal of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967),...
Another Look: Jeremy Carr on Robert Altman’s ‘Popeye’
Robert Altman’s ‘Popeye’ It may be the most underrated film ever made. Robert Altman’s Popeye (1980) was a box office bust and was widely panned...
Scorsese and Schrader’s ‘Bringing Out the Dead’ (1999) Deserves Another Look
Celebrating the lesser known works of great artists in the movies…. It would probably be fair to say that Bringing Out the Dead is among...