I’m a huge Joss Whedon fan, and am quite aware of his dismay with the way his script was tampered with in this movie. So naturally, I’m slightly biased and have always been just lukewarm on this film, the slightly disappointing origin of the Buffy universe. Every Whedonite knows the story of Whedon’s struggles, how …
When Clueless begins, Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) is shallow, self-centered, and vacuous. The most popular girl in her incredibly rich, Beverly Hills high school, Cher dishes out pseudo-spiritual guidance like Confucius raised exclusively on Cosmo, explaining her own philosophy in deliciously facile bon mots that she …
A sprawling LA cityscape twinkles in the distance as helicopters are filled with poisons to spread across the landscape and eradicate some treasonous foe. The helicopters take to the skies in an explosion of light and fly in tight military formation, looming over the heads of all 22 primary characters of Robert Altman’s Short Cuts as …
Robert Altman never really slowed down throughout his entire career. He made masterpieces in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s right up until his death in late 2006. He made films unique to him, his stamp was on everything he did from M*A*S*H* through his final film A Prairie Home Companion. For this final film …
In a gratuitously verbose title selection unseen since Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean finds Robert Altman at his most nostalgic for an effusive flavor of Americana that will forever be remembered with fondness , the smell of …
To most, The Color of Money and 1992’s Cape Fear represent Martin Scorsese’s most unfulfilling works and are often glossed over or even forgotten when discussing his work. Now, while I feel that Scorsese has never made a bad movie, Cape Fear came pretty close (and those that do not appreciate the quiet beauty of The Age …
How could this possibly be a Robert Altman film? There’s only one character, for starters and it’s all set in one room. Far from the sweeping character mosaics and open spaces of M*A*S*H*, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, A Wedding, and HealtH comes Secret Honor: a film version of a one-man play about a post- …
There’s no better way to enter the world of high art, than with an audience rudely chatting as a ballet performance is about to start. The talkers are of course prodded by the dedicated loyalists with loud shushes. Robert Altman’s The Company examines the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago casually through seasons of ballet. The …
The first of two films (the second being Joi Baba Felunath, reviewed here) directed by Satyajit Ray that follow his own Sherlock Holmes’esque literary creations, detective Feluda and his companions Topshe and Jatayu, Sonar Kella is filled with mystery and intrigue accessible to all ages as it travels through ancient cities and the ruins of …
The Graduate 2, starring Julie Roberts as the daughter of Ben and Elaine. This silly concept is pitched in the opening of Robert Altman’s 1992 film The Player. Like the rest of the film, it’s humorously silly but scarily accurate to the Hollywood of the 1990s and today. Right from the get-go, one can see classic notions of Hollywood …