Tag: Al Pacino

For years we held aloft Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton as examples of how the Academy can somehow elude greatness. Not only are both men…

Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated mob saga The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as the late mob assassin Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (1920-2003) is a dream…

Never let it be said that Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker who does anything by half measures. The legendary director had been looking to adapt…

A new Martin Scorsese movie has been a hot ticket of anticipation for decades. This autumn sees the release of Scorsese’s The Irishman on the…

“In this town, it can all change…like that.” Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, 1969 Hollywood? What are you up to this time, Quentin Tarantino? Unless you’ve…

Norman Jewison’s Al Pacino classic American legal dramedy …And Justice for All (1979) is one of my all-time favorite films. Written by the then-married screenwriters…

As the new year quickly approaches us, we have decided to set out our new year’s resolutions for 2019. As we are all about the…

“I implore readers — gay, straight, liberal, radical, atheist, communist, or whatever — to give Friedkin and his production crew a terrible time if you…

While many of you voted in the poll for what you considered the greatest performances by Al Pacino, the legendary actor was heading towards his…

So it’s Al Pacino’s birthday next week. We were going to through him a surprise party, but the last time we did that for him…

Millions more people have died of ailments caused by cigarette smoke than by all terrorist attacks in every country since time began, so when Michael Mann opens his film about tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffery Wigand (Russell Crowe) with CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) preparing a 60 Minutes interview with Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, cleric and cheerleader for suicide bombers, Mann had me at “hello.”

“A good cop can’t sleep because he’s missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can’t sleep because his conscience won’t let him….

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…