Christopher Saunders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 667 )

• 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

• Time Without Pity

  

  (1957) marked Joseph Losey's second British film, having fled America due to the blacklist. It's a remarkable race-against-time thriller, anchored by Michael... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Little Caesar

  

  "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?"More than any other movie, Little Caesar (1931) codified the gangster movie. Mervyn LeRoy's feature inspired a millio... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Romantic Englishwoman

  

  We return to the ever-maddening Joseph Losey, whose oeuvre is brilliant and terrible in equal measure. The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) showcases all of his... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Klute

  

  "Don't feel bad about losing your virtue... Everybody always does." In her early work, Jane Fonda seemed little more than ditzy showbiz offspring, suited to... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Doll's House (1973, Joseph Losey)

  

  Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House must have seemed timely in 1973, as two film versions appeared almost simultaneously. Patrick Garland's adaptation starring... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Book Review: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (1975, Norman Stone)

  

  Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914-1917. eBook edition, London: Penguin, 2008. 427 pp. Originally published by London: Penguin, 1975. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES