Title: Birdman of Alcatraz Year: 1962 Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Thelma Ritter, Karl Malden Synopsis: Sentenced to a lifetime in solitary confinement, convicted murderer Robert Stroud (Lancaster) combats the seclusion and doldrums of isolation by caring for a...
THE SWIMMER (1968) The Swimmer is an imperfect movie, but one that looms large in my memory, as it likely does for anyone who, like me, wandered into the film expecting a tepid 1960s literary adaptation and walked out chilled...
