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Bookmark or Share- The Daytrippers Review - Criterion ForumWith its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire ...
- Midnight Cowboy Review - Criterion ForumOne of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late-1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a ...
- On the Waterfront Review - Criterion ForumMarlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and social corruption, On the Waterfront follows Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must decide whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and ...
- A Face in the Crowd Review - Criterion ForumA Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political ...
- Bamboozled Review - Criterion ForumLee, a big film nerd, also likes to point out films that influenced this one, and there’s a wide variety, but the most obvious ones are Network, A Face in the Crowd (he talks a lot about that film’s screenwriter Budd Schulberg), and, most obviously, The Producers. Lee’s very open, and he obviously doesn’t care if he upsets anybody with ...
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