Christopher Saunders
I do not propose to recount my life in any detail, what is what. No damn business of anybody's, what is what. I am Groggy Dundee, *that* is what!
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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog
http://nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/
Reviews movies from all eras, countries and genres.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 653 )
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Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker built his career on overwrought dramas that boil "important" issues into high-gloss exploitation. Today, Midnight Express (1978) is less shocking... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The China Syndrome
The last great '70s thriller, The China Syndrome (1979) earned immortality by coming out twelve days before Three Mile Island's near-meltdown. Read more
Posted on 28 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Go-Between
"We can't expect to be happy all the time, can we?"The Go-Between (1971) marks Joseph Losey's final collaboration with Harold Pinter. After The Servant (1963)... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Quorum Call: The Godfather, Part II's Senate Committee
A major portion of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) involves Michael Corleone's interrogation by the United States Senate. Read more
Posted on 23 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Brotherhood
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde inspired a new wave of gangster films, which The Brotherhood (1968) nearly whacked. Martin Ritt's crime saga was a notorious flop... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Go Tell the Spartans
"That's the way the US kicks ass, Charlie!"1978 saw the Vietnam War belatedly exploding onscreen, with Coming Home and The Deer Hunter competing for box office... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Sebastian
By the late '60s the spy film was already overplayed, forcing filmmakers to stand out among endless James Bond clones. David Greene's Sebastian (1968) grafts Mo... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Casino
Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) lives in the shadow of Goodfellas, understandable if not entirely fair. After all, both films are sprawling gangland epics... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Lives of Others
Communist East Germany provides the setting for The Lives of Others (2006), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's remarkable debut. Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Valachi Papers
Dino De Laurentiis had been developing The Valachi Papers (1972) for several years before The Godfather scooped him. After that film's success, Valachi proved... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Rain People
Despite mainstream success, Francis Ford Coppola has always been an experimental director at heart. His fourth feature, The Rain People (1969), is a... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Godfather, Part III
Few people have much good to say about The Godfather Part III (1990). Despite generally positive reviews and several Oscar nominations, it became an instant... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Southpaw
No subgenre's more predictable than the boxing movie, and Southpaw (2015) has no surprises. Antoine Fuqua's latest is an R-rated Rocky, revisiting old clichés... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
State of Siege
Costa-Gavras is an equal-opportunity antiauthoritarian. After Z (1969) attacked Greece's slide into reactionary dictatorship, he excoriated Communist... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Terminator
James Cameron scored his breakthrough hit with The Terminator (1984). Besides putting Cameron and star Arnold Schwarzenegger on the map, it remains one of the... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
New Article: On Herbert Selpin and Joachim Gottschalk
New Sound on Sight piece, a coda to our previous Nazi viewings. Here you'll read the stories of Joachim Gottschalk and Herbert Selpin, two German film artists... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Paper Towns
Besides Taylor Swift, young adult novel adaptations are the closest thing I have to a guilty pleasure. This summer features another John Green weepy, not... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Firm
(1993) was the first of the Nineties' innumerable John Grisham adaptations. Thanks to an excellent cast and Sydney Pollack's slick direction, it's one of the... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
Critics generally trashed Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010), Oskar Roehler's fictionalized telling of Nazi Germany's notorious propaganda epic, Jud Suss. Read more
Posted on 24 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) ranks high on the list of that year's 5,000 suburban angst dramas. Coppola's stylish, evocative direction makes a... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES