Clik here to view.
Iron Director: Billy Wilder vs. Preston Sturges
I’m going back in time to my first entry in the Iron Director series, borrowing the same theme. My first entry was about two directors who I’d become obsessed with in 2010–François Truffaut and Rainer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Second Annual TDYLFie Awards
It's a major award! The end of the year is just around the corner, which means it’s time for a bunch of lazy journalists to do their year-end best and worst lists of 2011. But why should they have all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Miraculous Comedy: Preston Sturges and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
One of my goals for 2012 is to check off everything on the AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs list. One of the side benefits is that there are several films on the list by directors with whom I’m still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Re-Watchterpiece Theater: Barton Fink (1991)
Re-Watchterpiece Theater is a series that explores the organic way that attitudes about films change after you watch them a second time, a third time, or more, further down the line than the original...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The AFI 100 Laughs Experience
As regular readers of this site know, I’ve made it my goal to watch the entire AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs list in 2012. When I started the process, I had already seen 57 films, leaving me with 43 to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Movie Weekend That Was
After a very long week, I looked forward to a solid movie-watching weekend. I didn’t get in as many as I would have liked, but I still managed to see a decent handful. Even without a trip to see...
View Article
