Top 100 Favorite Films: 2017 Edition
A few years ago, I was asked by a friend to rank my Top Five Favorite Films. It was so daunting to limit my list to only five titles that […]
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Frank Mosley on “Her Wilderness”
Frank Mosley’s entrancing hour-long picture, “Her Wilderness,” is a cinematic meditation comprised of fragmented narrative threads. A young blonde woman (Lauren McCune) teeters on the edge of self-destruction. A pregnant […]
High on “Inherent Vice”
I frankly didn’t know what to make of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” the first time I saw it. I hadn’t read the Thomas Pynchon novel upon which it was […]
Top 100 Favorite Films
I was recently asked by a friend to rank my Top Five Favorite Films. It was so daunting to limit my list to only five titles that I decided to […]
The Greatest: Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis
When Meryl Streep presented Daniel Day-Lewis with his third Oscar (making him the first performer in history to receive three Best Actor statuettes) on last month’s telecast, I suddenly realized […]
Top Twenty Films of 2012: Part II
Contrary to what the Academy may have you believe, the year’s best films aren’t always released during November and December. In fact, one of the pictures in my top ten […]
Mike Eisenberg on “The Master”
Sometimes you just happen to be at the right place at the right time. On the evening of August 15th, I happened to be on Facebook when the announcement was […]
Calvin Steinken and Thomas Cheely on Tribeca Flashpoint, Paul Thomas Anderson
I had a blast chatting with accomplished film students Calvin Steinken and Thomas Cheely about their experiences at Tribeca Flashpoint, and their process of developing their own voices as filmmakers. […]
Dissecting “The Master” Teasers
There is perhaps no figure in American film more polarizing or fascinating than Paul Thomas Anderson. While some moviegoers dismiss his work as pretentious or unpleasant, others embrace it as […]
