The Outlaw Josey Wales was Clint Eastwood’s 31st film as an actor, 20th as international star, and 5th as director, but was the first to win him widespread respect. Critics had initially grumbled when hearing that Eastwood had replaced Philip Kaufman as the director a week into shooting. However, they ended up cheering when Eastwood […]
Archives for April 2018
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Series
Four egocentric friends who run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better. Along with all five […]
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just as diversified as his own discriminating tastes. For Rosenbaum, there is no high or low cinema, […]