The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on October 29, 2019

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn’t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on October 29, 2019

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn’t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on October 29, 2019

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn’t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on October 29, 2019

Biloxi Blues has some rather peculiar, rather significant third act problems. Like, it doesn’t have a third act. Did they cut a bunch to keep the PG rating or something? Because at a certain point the rising action stalls out and the film goes into montage summary overdrive. After giving...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on December 30, 2018

Becoming Mike Nichols Directed by Douglas McGrath 2016/US HBO Documentary Films First viewing/Amazon Instant In the last interview he gave before his death, the multi-talented Mike Nichols talked with theater director Jack O’Brien about his life and work.  The conversation spans  his family&   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on December 3, 2018

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens with this gentle, lovely music from Alex North. It’s night, it’s a university campus, a couple is walking silently as the credits roll; the music’s beautiful. Then the couple–Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton–get home. And pretty soon they start yelling at ea   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on December 1, 2014

Towards the end of Working Girl, the film seems to jump around a bit with the timeline. It seems to jump ahead, but then it turns out it doesn’t. And it only seems to jump ahead because of how director Nichols and editor Sam O’Steen structure a couple transitions. It’s...   read more