Platoon: Americans In Vietnam
With a trip to Vietnam a few months ahead of me I’ve been running old movies and new books through …
Tag Archives: Movies:America
Bogart: I Was Born When You Kissed Me, Died When You Left Me….
Sometimes you come upon a book or a movie you can’t figure out how you had missed earlier. I haven’t seen …
Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Report
Beasts of the Southern Wild has been wildly praised in many parts. We went to see it despite some trepidation …
The Deer Hunter — Re-Seeing in 2012
Seeing Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter 30 plus years after it made such an impression in 1978 as one of the …
The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …
“Shame” – A Real Shame
I’m going to save you $10 and two hours of your life right here. The movie Shame, with deep pretense …
Outsourced — An Amusing Film About a Not So Amusing Subject
I tripped over Outsourced [2006, dir. John Jeffcoat] the other evening, and after seeing the premise — of cultural confusion as …
Men With Guns
I’ve long ago lost my appetite for American “men-with-guns” movies. Two recent viewings dulled it even more. The American with …
The Reader: A Film, and Questions Unanswered
The Reader, a film by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by David Hare, Produced by Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack So Kate …
The Wrestler
There is probably no more appropriate theater in San Francisco to see The Wrestler, a film about a decrepit, down …
Charlie Wilson’s War
Charlie Wilson’s War, the new Mike Nichols film based on George Crile’s book of the same name opened last week …
The Devil Knows
We wound up at “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” Sidney Lumet‘s new film, last night because we couldn’t get …