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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Adapting Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint
Let's rewind the clock to 1959. Philip Roth, at twenty-six years old, publishes his debut, Goodbye Columbus, a novella accompanied by several short stories. Read more
Posted on 05 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Adapting Philip Roth: The Human Stain
The Human Stain (2003) is another underwhelming Philip Roth adaptation. Robert Benson approaches the material with respect, but can't overcome the material's... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Adapting Philip Roth: American Pastoral and Indignation
Philip Roth's novels have long frustrated filmmakers, who seem incapable of rendering his complex, neurotic world-building in cinematic terms. Read more
Posted on 03 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
La La Land
Calling La La Land (2016) old-fashioned isn't a knock but a complement. Damien Chazelle's musical is a swoon-worthy throwback to classic Hollywood, with catchy... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Jackie
Pablo Larrain's Jackie (2016) is one of those prestige dramas so caught up in being an actor's showcase that it forgets to work on any other level. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Immigrant
"I am not nothing."James Gray's The Immigrant (2013) is a remarkable movie, almost an anachronism. It offers the look and staging of Classic Hollywood... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Miss Julie (2014)
"We are all forced to face ourselves as less than we'd hoped to be."Liv Ullman gives August Strindberg's most famous play respectful but not especially cinemati... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hell Or High Water
"I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation."Hell or High Water (2016) makes a good argument that the Western, even if... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Moonlight
"At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you're going to be."What a marvelous film Moonlight (2016) is, sensitive, searching and attuned to human... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Miss Sloane
"Career suicide's not so bad when you consider the alternative is suicide by career." Miss Sloane (2016) is a gripping, occasionally awkward merger of message... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Innocents (1961)
Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961) offers a superb study in psychological terror. Adapting Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, it's unsettling in a way that fe... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Women (1939)
"A woman's compromised the day she's born!"It's hard to approach The Women (1939), a "sophisticated" dramedy that's embarrassingly dated. Read more
Posted on 19 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Grand Hotel
"People come. People go. Nothing ever happens."Grand Hotel (1932) is the granddaddy of the Hollywood ensemble drama. Everything from Stagecoach to '70s... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Captain America: Civil War
Anthony and Joe Russo delivered one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's highpoints with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), a slick, high-powered thrille... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Raifuku Maru: From Tragedy to Myth
Those familiar with maritime lore will certainly recall the Raifuku Maru, one of the more colorful victims of the Bermuda Triangle. Read more
Posted on 05 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Shooting Party (1985)
"My fellow murderers are rather hot-blooded." Alan Bridges' The Shooting Party (1985) belongs to a familiar school of drama, examining the faults and foibles... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Eagle in a Cage
"Anyone can make use of a friend. The trick is to use one's enemies."Eagle in a Cage (1972) began life as a 1960s television play starring Trevor Howard, only t... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
"I never met a man I didn't mutilate!"You won't easily find a stranger movie than Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980). Vivian Henshall's radio... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
"Why should you be afraid to die? Your soul has been dead for a long time." Beneath Roger Corman's B Movie hucksterism lie a genuinely talented filmmaker;... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Criminal
Joseph Losey's The Criminal (1960) hybridizes two complementary genres: the heist film and the prison drama. It's an exemplary work, anchored by the memorable... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES