Tagged: orson welles

March 4, 2019

Monday Movie: Touch of Evil, by Aaron Pinkston

This originally ran in September 2012 as a part of Aaron’s series on 1950s American films. In his introduction of Touch of Evil at the Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute professor Fred Camper called the 1950s...

2018 / movies / scott nye

January 10, 2019

Scott’s Top Ten of 2018

2018 was an especially strong year for cinema. I considered many variations of this list, and have viewed many others with which I can find little objection. If that’s not an abundance of riches, well…I’ll settle for it. Honorable mentions...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

November 8, 2018

Criterion Prediction #164: Touch of Evil, by Alexander Miller

Title: Touch of Evil Year: 1958 Director: Orson Welles Cast: Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Victor Millan, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Cotten Synopsis: Mexican narcotics agent Miguel Vargas is entangled in a case rife with corruption and scandal...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

October 31, 2018

The Other Side of the Wind: It’s All Blowing Back Around, by Scott Nye

If Da Vinci was right, that art is never finished, only abandoned, it’s little wonder we consider Orson Welles to be perhaps the greatest filmmaker of all time. He firmly completed films count among masterpieces – Citizen Kane, F for...

monday movie / movies / tyler smith

July 23, 2018

Monday Movie: Citizen Kane, by Tyler Smith

Citizen Kane has long been considered the best movie ever made, to the point that it is almost a foregone conclusion. But, when one actually takes the time to consider the film and all its complexities, one finds a film...

monday movie / movies / tyler smith

July 2, 2018

Monday Movie: The Third Man, by Tyler Smith

Perhaps one of the most cynical movies ever made, The Third Man features an inept protagonist whose breezy attitude allows him to be easily-manipulated by everybody around him, from the local cops to mysterious women to hardened crooks. His love...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 29, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Compulsion, by David Bax

There are surprisingly few movies about Leopold and Loeb, the 1920s Chicago rich kids who murdered a teenage boy just to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The jaw-dropping cold-bloodedness of the crime...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

February 1, 2018

Criterion Prediction #125: Macbeth, by Alexander Miller

Title: Macbeth Year: 1948 Director: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Alan Napier, Dan O’Herlihy, Erskine Sanford Synopsis: A Scottish general is prophesied to become king of Scotland, setting him on a path of blind and ruthless conquest to...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

December 16, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #1: Citizen Kane, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. Citizen Kane is often at...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

November 14, 2017

Tagged: orson welles

Monday Movie: Touch of Evil, by Aaron Pinkston

Scott’s Top Ten of 2018

Criterion Prediction #164: Touch of Evil, by Alexander Miller

The Other Side of the Wind: It’s All Blowing Back Around, by Scott Nye

Monday Movie: Citizen Kane, by Tyler Smith

Monday Movie: The Third Man, by Tyler Smith

Home Video Hovel: Compulsion, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #125: Macbeth, by Alexander Miller

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #1: Citizen Kane, by Sarah Brinks

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #10: The Third Man, by Sarah Brinks

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