4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 8, 2016

Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the looming Tetons lend the same iconic majesty to this western that Monument Valley does for many of Ford’s best pictures. But then again, George Stevens was another master and he too was changed by the war, coming back with a different tone and a “American...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 8, 2016

Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the looming Tetons lend the same iconic majesty to this western that Monument Valley does for many of Ford’s best pictures. But then again, George Stevens was another master and he too was changed by the war, coming back with a different tone and an “American...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 8, 2016

Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the looming Tetons lend the same iconic majesty to this western that Monument Valley does for many of Ford’s best pictures. But then again, George Stevens was another master and he too was changed by the war, coming back with a different tone and a “American...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 6, 2016

This is not a powerhouse film, but it’s bolstered by a powerhouse performance from James Cromwell. His career has always been one worth watching. He’s been prolific for many years now in films like Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, The Artist, and so on. And yet he’s never been a   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 6, 2016

This is not a powerhouse film, but it’s bolstered by a powerhouse performance from James Cromwell. His career has always been one worth watching. He’s been prolific for many years now in films like Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, The Artist, and so on. And yet he’s never been a   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 5, 2016

Carol Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet is a deeply thought-provoking, spiritual foray into the realms of faith and love. However, it is as much about doubt as it is faith, as much about discord as it is about love. It shows a spectrum that, while irrevocably Danish with its actors and setting...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 5, 2016

Carol Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet is a deeply thought-provoking, spiritual foray into the realms of faith and love. However, it is as much about doubt as it is faith, as much about discord as it is about love. It shows a spectrum that, while irrevocably Danish with its actors and setting...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 3, 2016

That moment when the undertaker is first seen pleading for justice and the camera slowly pulls closer, it’s so slight we hardly even notice it, but we hear his bitter monologue about America and his disfigured daughter. A head appears in the frame and we get our first vision of...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 3, 2016

That moment when the undertaker is first seen pleading for justice and the camera slowly pulls closer, it’s so slight we hardly even notice it, but we hear his bitter monologue about America and his disfigured daughter. A head appears in the frame and we get our first vision of...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 3, 2016

That moment when the undertaker is first seen pleading for justice and the camera slowly pulls closer, it’s so slight we hardly even notice it, but we hear his bitter monologue about America and his disfigured daughter. A head appears in the frame and we get our first vision of...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 1, 2016

His ambitious follow-up to The Birth of the Nation a year before, D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance boasts four narrative threads meant to intertwine in a story of grand design. Transcending time, eras, and cultures, this monumental undertaking grabs hold of some of the cataclysmic markers of world   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 1, 2016

His ambitious follow up to The Birth of the Nation a year before, D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance boasts four narrative threads meant to intertwine in a story of grand design. Transcending time, eras, and cultures, this monumental undertaking grabs hold of some of the cataclysmic markers of world   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 28, 2016

Even with the so-called Krushchev Thaw, it’s pretty amazing that Commissar even got made and perhaps even more astounding that it made it to the viewer all these years later. Some of that might be because it originated from Russian Civil War literature and anything else we can attribute to...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 27, 2016

“It’s not just physical abuse it’s spiritual too.” I wrote a piece tracing the obvious parallels between All the President’s Men and Spotlight, two films that I could easily see both shaking the very framework of American society through their very candid portrayal of j   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 27, 2016

“They say it’s just physical abuse but it’s more than that, this was spiritual abuse.” I wrote a piece tracing the obvious parallels between All the President’s Men and Spotlight, two films that I could easily see both shaking the very framework of American society thro   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 26, 2016

A Most Wanted Man gained some notability as one of the last works of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and it must be acknowledged that he gives a truly worthwhile performance. He’s Gunther Bachmann, the German head of a covert team that is looking to undermine potential threats from Islamic terrorist o   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 26, 2016

A Most Wanted Man gained some notability as one of the last works of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and it must be acknowledged that he gives a truly worthwhile performance. No surprise there. He’s Gunther Bachmann, the German head of a covert team that is looking to undermine potential threats from   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 25, 2016

Federico Fellini’s La Strada is in the tradition of other films like Chaplin’s The Circus (1928) and even Nightmare Alley (1947). He even goes so far as to feature two regular Hollywood performers in Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart. This film is prominent for helping the Italian maste   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 25, 2016

Federico Fellini’s La Strada is in the tradition of other films like Chaplin’s The Circus (1928) and even Nightmare Alley (1947). He even goes so far as to feature two regular Hollywood performers in Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart. This film is prominent for helping the Italian maste   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 24, 2016

By definition a revenant is someone who returns, but there is often a connotation that they are returning from the dead like a specter. The term gives major insight into Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest undertaking with Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s a fully immersive, grimy, gory, grisly,   read more