Reviews

Altman would follow That Cold Day in the Park with a series of films that have become classics - some of the greatest films of all time. ...

1967 film Countdown is an interesting, almost forgotten film which marked another signpost on Robert Altman's way to 1970 and M*A*S*H - it was Altman's first proper feature since The Delinquents in 1957, but this was much more weighty - A William Conrad Production at Warner Brothers which saw him pr... ...

It gives the film a feel of "one of those" educational films instead of the professional, "real film" feel it would have otherwise had. ...

On the one hand, you could see this film as exploiting his death, but in the end it seems more that this film is genuinely buying into the fact that this man deserved a kind of filmic eulogy in keeping with who he was. ...

Robert Altman is one of my friend's number one favourite filmmakers, and I've seen many films of his that I rate very highly - one of the films of his I like the most, Brewster McCloud, has a very similar feel to Nashville in style, and another, McCabe & Mrs. ...

Adaptation references it's own making, and in a sense so does The Player - The postcard sender calls Griffin Mill again, and gives him a pitch for a film which is basically everything that has happened so far - calling his film "The Player", and as long as Mill greenlights it, it will have a happy e... ...

One of these rarities is Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) - a nervous young man who narrates the film and tells us that he's survived due to following a set of rules he's devised for himself, and it's these rules that we'll come across throughout the film - often appearing in graphic form whenever an appl... ...

The David Fincher-directed film Zodiac isn't necessarily all about the Zodiac or his mysterious crimes - this is a film about obsession, and about three men in particular. ...

Payne would go on to contrast this film with his much more serious Nebraska, which is basically this film played much more straight - and with the Schmidt character having dementia. ...

Deakins himself had nothing but bad fortune the first 13 times he was nominated for an Oscar, his 13th being for filming Sicario. ...