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!
MY BLOGS
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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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The Confession (1970)
After savaging Greece's military junta in Z (1969), Costa-Gavras targets Stalinist barbarity in The Confession (1970). Based on Czech official Artur London's... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Oscar Announcements
We start by recognizing that after Birdman, all the Best Picture nominees are shit.First, another Moviepilot article to pimp, this one on The Day of the... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Behold a Pale Horse
(1964) was a rare flop for Fred Zinnemann. A portentous revenge saga, its soggy storytelling never comes to life, while miscast stars flounder in unsuitable... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Golden Globes, Etc.
The Golden Globes were last night, so that everyone knows, more or less, what to expect on Oscar night. The winners are:MOTION PICTURESBest DramaWINNER:... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Jackal
In the mid-'90s, some Universal Studios wiseacre decided to remake The Day of the Jackal (1973). Then Jackal's creators, novelist Frederick Forsyth and... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Groggy on Moviepilot: Algerian War Movies
My latest Moviepilot piece dropped today: Shadows of Savagery: The Algerian War on Film. This article covers 54 years' worth of films about France's "savage... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese spent decades preparing Gangs of New York (2002). It's a world apart from his usual crime sagas, a grandly ambitious, monumentally flawed... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Best and Worst Film Viewings of 2014
Surviving another Christopher Nolan movie2014 wasn't a great movie year. I went through my archives before preparing this list and saw that only six new viewing... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Rawhide (1951)
The Fifties were replete with Westerns valuing suspense over action, most famously High Noon and 3:10 to Yuma. Henry Hathaway's Rawhide (1951) is practically a... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Imitation Game
It's Christmastime, so let's watch some ostentatious Oscar bait. Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game (2014) provides a competent biopic of Alan Turing,... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Birdman, Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
I've spent three days puzzling Birdman (2014), a deceptively complex movie. Credit director-cowriter Alejandro González Iñárritu for crafting something distinct. Read more
Posted on 24 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
An Historical Holiday Interlude
I watched a few films this weekend, but haven't gotten around to reviewing them yet. Mainly because I've been researching the American Civil War,... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Suddenly
"When you have a gun, you are in a way sort of a God."Suddenly (1954) was a minor Frank Sinatra film until the unspeakable happened. Lee Harvey Oswald caught... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
To Be Or Not to Be (1942)
When Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be (1942) hit theaters at the height of World War II, many critics attacked it as inappropriately lighthearted. Read more
Posted on 17 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Othello (1995)
The early Nineties saw Shakespeare films of all shapes: straightforward (Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet), experimental (Richard Loncraine's '30s-set Richard III),... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Macbeth (1971)
Roman Polanski made Macbeth (1971) in an extremely dark place. Depressed and guilt-ridden from Sharon Tate's murder, he channels his despair into William... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Breakheart Pass
Alistair MacLean exports his high adventure tropes to the Old West in Breakheart Pass (1973). More whodunnit than Western, it's an enjoyable mix of action and... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
An Affair to Remember
There's no more quintessential Hollywood melodrama than An Affair to Remember (1957), alternately beloved as endearingly earnest or derided as gloppy garbage. Read more
Posted on 06 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Queen Margot
Critics like calling Queen Margot (1994) France's answer to The Godfather. But Patrice Chereau's epic is more a Gallic precursor to Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth,... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I
I was disappointed with last year's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Commendably ambitious, it nonetheless felt like a padded-out interstitial chapter. Read more
Posted on 24 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES