In a week and a day, my book for Cahiers du Cinema/Phaidon, Robert De Niro: Anatomy Of An Actor, sees publication. It is only right and fitting, I am told,…
Read More
With Lawrence Montaigne, Gordon Jackson, and David MacCallum in The Great Escape, John Sturges, 1963. Garner's screen work gently rebuffs hard analysis. It isn't that what he did lacked complexity…
Read More
I was saddened, like so many music lovers, to hear last week of the death of the very great bassist and composer Charlie Haden. He was one of my favorite…
Read More
Maybe this should be headed "Movies You Ought To Contemplate Seeing Once You Find Out Boyhood Is Sold Out." One such picture is Land Ho!, starring the above-seen Earl Lynn…
Read More
So I've been sprucing up my CV and seeking other kinds of work and avenues for work. "You should pitch more interviews and profiles," is something I've heard, and I…
Read More