Posted in Year in Film

Rewind: 1967 in Film – Bonnie and Clyde

Within the realm of American Cinema, one can’t overstate the shock of seeing Bonnie & Clyde for the first time. I can imagine it: it’s…

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Rewind: 1967 in Film – Point Blank

Never have footsteps done so much to revolutionize filmmaking as they have in Point Blank. The film plays like an inversion of that old saying,…

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Indie Review: The Big Take

The myth of the first feature is so damaging to any aspiring filmmaker. You look at Citizen Kane or Red Road or Blood Simple, and…

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Directed By Women September – Quote: “I Wanted to Shoot People” from Blue Steel

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s third full-length feature, a serial-killer thriller about an NYPD rookie (Jamie Lee Curtis, in a performance that should have made her a…

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