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Dan Schneider
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Roger Ebert calls Dan Schneider, 'observant, smart, and makes every effort to be fair,' and states,
'What is remarkable about these many words is that Schneider keeps an open mind,
approaches each film afresh, and doesn't always repeat the same judgments.
An ideal critic tries to start over again with every review.'
While watching the DVD of “The Life Of Oharu,” a 1952 film by Kenji Mizoguchi, I was put…
You know a film is not that good when the best contemporaneous review one can find of it was from…
No film in the James Cagney filmography best illustrates what can only be called “The Cagney Conundrum” than does the…
It’s amazing, for a film that won the Oscar for Best Picture the year it was released, and was made…
Of the six films of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima that I have seen, his 1983 color film “Merry Christmas, Mr….
British director Alan Parker’s 1978 film, “Midnight Express,” based upon a non-fiction book, by William Hayes and William Hoffer,…
In rewatching the 1978 version of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,” after many years (I originally saw it in a…
Watching Luchino Visconti’s 1969 film, “The Damned “(“La Caduta Degli Dei,” literally “The Fall Of The Gods”), not long…
Director William Friedkin’s 1971 classic police thriller, The French Connection, which won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Picture (and…
The penultimate teleplay in The Criterion Collections’ DVD set called The Golden Age of Television is the 1957 Playhouse 90…
I likely saw the film version of “Requiem For A Heavyweight” when I was quite young. My dad was a…
The Marx Brothers have never been as good as some other great comedy teams, be it the verbal brilliance of…
DVD Review John Cassavetes was one of those rare artists of whom it could be said that his flaws were…