The genius of Martin Scorcese’s Hugo is not just that it employs the latest in filmmaking technology, but that it employs them in a story about how filmmaking itself came to be. This is a subject near and dear to Scorcese, who, apart from directing and producing, is renowned for his work as a film ...
Have someone on your list who still rocks out to the Beatles or Pink Floyd? Maybe a lost Doobie Brother, or a Jim Morrison fanatic? Well, a multitude of gifts exist for that special someone who wishes CDs were in the distant future and the Rolling Stones were still rolling instead of slowly moving their ...
It’s not easy to choose the top ten mafia movies, given how many films have been made about the subject. From Coppola’s The Godfather, usually ranked as one of the ten top movies of all time, mafia or not, to movies in recent years which have given us the good, bad and ugly of organized ...
I started writing a short history for each of the Top 100 films on the American Film Institutes list, and then I realized that the AFI list is problematic for a few different reasons. It only represents the opinions of film critics, it stays within the boundaries of Hollywood and American born films, and it ...
