Bruce Bennett

Essay On Johnnie To’s frenetic, poetic, deeply personal homage to nightlife, friendship, stick-to-itiveness, and the Hong Kong of the heart. Throw Down (2004) plays at Metrograph from Saturday, April 25, as part of Sukiyaki Bebop Share: WHAT WOULD ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK’S Sweet Smell Of Success (1957), Elia Kazan’s Panic In the Streets (1950), or Sherman A.

Columns Metrograph’s Listen Up! column, in which we revisit movie scores and soundtracks of note, takes a momentary detour to look at the (El)vicissitudes of making the King’s best movie—and Don Siegel’s best Western—Flaming Star (1960). Flaming Star plays at Metrograph from Saturday, October 11 as part of Don Siegel: Last of the Independents.

“’Apocalypse Now’ is an exceptional film. It is also an average American film of the post-Vietnam era.” BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Jean Luc-Godard once professed that Serge Daney was the end of criticism as he understood it. One of the greatest film critics of his generation, Daney, who died in 1992, wrote for the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a journalist for the daily newspaper Libération.