Best Western
Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the linchpin of the American western genre. Released in the U.S. in 1967 after its initial run in Italy, the film serves as a bridge between the idealized West of John Ford and Howard Hawks and the desolate, violent purgatories of Read More
Manhattan is clogged and constipated with an excess of fashion trends. We need a style enema. The whole concept of fashion trends has always been a bit dodgy. Historically, these modish milestones consisted of imperial edicts inflicted on a pathetically absorbent public-a.k.a. you-by deranged fashion editors and retail operatives-a.k.a. moi -whose main agenda was always Read More
The June issue of Premiere proudly proclaims on its cover: “Sizzling Summer Preview/ The Real Lowdown on All the Hottest Movies.” Inside the magazine under the heading of ” Premiere ‘s Ultimate Summer Movie Preview” was a Top 10 list of movies that would “rule the Box-Office galaxy.” No. 1 was, of course, Star Wars: Read More
Hermine Huntgeburth’s The Trio , from a screenplay by Horst Sczerba, Volker Einrauch and Ms. Huntgeburth, bounces along on the screen with a shifting array of attractions and affinities in line with the current mini-trend toward bisexual triangles. I wouldn’t recommend this film to Jerry Falwell, who has recently warned us of the peril to Read More
