Rent it now: Haskell Wexler’s ‘Medium Cool’
“Medium Cool” didn’t get nearly as much attention as some of the other daring major studio films of the summer of 1969 — it was up against “Midnight Cowboy” and “Easy Rider” among other...
View Article‘The Loved One’: they don’t make them like this anymore
The ad slogan for “The Loved One” when it came out in 1965 was unusually brash — “The motion picture with something to offend everyone!” For once a movie studio used honest marketing, but the...
View ArticleBad Movies We Love: the goofy & melancholy ‘Blood Beach’
There are bad movies we watch more than once because they are so over-the-top awful (“Valley of the Dolls”) or that capture a slice of society rarely seen on screen (the early 1980s Broadway of “The...
View ArticleA still-daring film from the summer of Woodstock
Haskell Wexler’s “Medium Cool” didn’t get nearly as much attention as some of the other daring major studio films of the summer of 1969 — it was up against “Midnight Cowboy” and “Easy Rider” among...
View Article‘Best of Enemies’ launches Hearst movie meet-up
It will be my pleasure tonight to host the first movie meet-up – “Movie and a Martini” — that is part of the new S magazine that will be launched in the four Hearst Connecticut newspapers on Sept. 27....
View ArticleVilmos & Haskell – movie revolutionaries
The 1960s and 1970s are celebrated as the time when filmmakers in Hollywood finally gained the same degree of control over their work as the great European directors of the post-World War II era. For...
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