A Walk on the Moon (1999, dir. Tony Goldwyn) – REVIEW
Tony Goldwyn has earned a slew of respectable credits as an actor on stage and screen over the past thirty years. He also has a lead role in the ABC television series Scandal—now in is […]
Articles by Hadley Hury
Othello – (1952, dir. Orson Welles) – REVIEW
Orson Welles made Othello—the first purely “cinematic” version of Shakespeare— between 1949 and 1952. The golden boy director of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles was, by age 34, in exile from Hollywood. Othello’s bizarre production history […]
Live Flesh – (1997, dir. Pedro Almodovar) – REVIEW
Over the past 30 years Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has succeeded brilliantly with both surreal comedy (Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown) and sensual dramas (Talk to Her, Volver). Though he’s had a […]
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) – A Review of George Stevens’s classic meditation on “the American Dream”
One of the most tender and erotic kisses in film occurs in A Place in the Sun, director George Stevens’s 1951 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy. That this indelible moment transpires between […]