A 1960s movie that has never lost its freshness
Jean-Luc Godard has been enjoying a huge renaissance of his 1960s films in recent years. “Band of Outsiders” (1964) and “Contempt” (1963) and “Masculine-Feminine” (1966) have all had hit art-house...
View Article‘The 400 Blows’: the film that launched a cinematic revolution
It was an honor to be asked to host the first “Critic’s Choice” night at the beautiful Bijou Theatre in downtown Bridgeport tonight at 6:30. After looking through the new venue’s impressive catalog of...
View ArticleThe most revolutionary movie of the 1960s?
Although French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard was never as popular with U.S. arthouse audiences as his peer Francois Truffaut, Godard’s stunning 1959 debut film, “Breathless (A Bout de Souffle),”...
View ArticleThe best book ever written about the Academy Awards?
Critic and historian Mark Harris has been the most reliably sane and informed commentator on the Oscar race over the past few years. Sadly, for us, Harris had to sit out this year’s Oscars because he...
View ArticleLinda Lavin: a portrait of the artist in Fairfield
Leave it to the smart and adventurous actress Linda Lavin to come up with a new way of doing a public interview. On Sunday, Lavin and her husband, the musician and artist Steve Bakunas, came to the...
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