Screengrab: Anticipated movies of the Fall

From Top: Gone Girl, Big Hero 6, Birdman, Miss Julie, Foxcatcher,  The Skeleton Twins, St Vincent

Best American movies of the last 25 years

A recent Twitter exchange left me all abuzz about my favorite American movies of the last 25 years. After some thought, I have refined the...

The fine art of being swept up, up and away

From my column about film scores for Intelligent Life :— ' If there’s any big news from the world of film scores over the last few year...

From James Wolcott's excellent appreciation :- 'Paul Mazursky loved and appreciated actors because he began as one, studying with fa...