THE SIDNEY LUMET SYLLABUS
So far I’ve completed my John Cassavetes, John Ford and Pedro Almodovar marathons. Today I feel the need to return to the US for cinematic discovery and turn to a filmmaker who I know of somewhat,…
I thought a thing about movies…
So far I’ve completed my John Cassavetes, John Ford and Pedro Almodovar marathons. Today I feel the need to return to the US for cinematic discovery and turn to a filmmaker who I know of somewhat,…
Over the last few months of the summer so far, while the blockbuster season has been relatively kind to me, I’ve been spending it with Pedro Almodovar. With my current disposition to be marathoning through filmmaker’s…
This is a part of my Pedro Almodovar Marathon. Being candid, I’m not quite sure how to discuss this film. While I don’t mean to make it sound like the plot is akin to The Tree…
I’m not sure if anyone out there would call this filmmaker blindspot egregious, but somehow I feel it is. With two marathons complete this year (John Cassavetes & John Ford) I feel a need to…
If there’s one thing this marathon taught me is that five films isn’t barely enough to get to know a director. Unlike the Cassavetes, where I had watched ten of his films before writing a…