Books: The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
Sam Wasson, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (New York: Flatiron Books, 2020). * * * Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye tells the irresistible tale of[…]
Author: Jonathan Kirshner
Jonathan Kirshner is the author of Hollywood’s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America, and co-editor (with Jon Lewis) of When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited. He is a professor in the Political Science Department at Boston College.
Dark Undercurrents: Claude Chabrol’s Second Wave from Les Biches (1968) to Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
“There are no waves, there is only the ocean.” – Claude Chabrol * * * From 1968 to 1975 Claude Chabrol directed a dozen films – one of the most[…]
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“A much more thoughtful and (is it possible?) more mature director”: Woody Allen at Eighty
Years from now, there will be little question as to his place in film history – a prominent seat at the grownups’ table, with a place card highlighting his run[…]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s Noir Improvisations: Two Men in Manhattan, Le Doulos, Le Deuxieme Souffle
First daring and experimental in an era of conformity, then classical in the age of the new wave, and finally nuanced and introspective when fashionable tastes ran radical and revolutionary[…]
Crime · Directors · Thrillers & Action
Late Great Chabrol: Revisiting the French Master’s Final Decade from The Color of Lies (1999) to Inspector Bellamy (2009)
“Claude Chabrol,” David Thomson wrote in his 2010 obituary, “is the kind of figure who could be reclaimed after death.” Very well, then – four years later there is still[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries
The Whole World Is Watching: Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool on DVD
“Following his interest in the cab driver with a taste for the story, not the politics, John incidentally finds out that — shades of today’s NSA controversies — his station managers have been letting the police and the FBI study his footage to aid in their search for subversives. It is also the kind of reporting, it seems, that can get one fired.”
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