The New Hollywood Era was prone to all sorts of films, many being eye-opening and a reflection of society’s problems and realities. One of them, 1976’s Network, directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky, is a perfect example. Plunged into the reality of network television read more
The New Hollywood Era was prone to all sorts of films, many being eye-opening and a reflection of society’s problems and realities. One of them, 1976’s Network, directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky, is a perfect example. Plunged into the reality of network television, read more
There are two significant problems with Murder on the Orient Express. Unfortunately, both of them are aspects of the film’s genre. Well, one of them is an aspect of the genre and the other is related to the film’s extremely high quality acting. So, neither of them are “problems” in the traditional read more
Besides Al Pacino, there are other actors in Dog Day Afternoon. Some of them give fantastic performances too. But, even with those fantastic performances, every time Pacino is alone on screen, whether closeup or not, monologue or not, it feels like there’s no one else in the film besides him. read more
The Morning After is an awkward combination of thriller and adult drama. As a thriller, with Paul Chihara’s enthusiastic and bombastic score, it’s frequently annoying. Jane Fonda can scrub a crime scene of every thread of evidence, but the simple things–like dropping a succeeding read more
