You can find the introduction and index for this series here. Film Director Year Type Nancy Drew…Trouble Shooter William Clemens 1939 Narrative feature Life Begins for Andy Hardy George B. Seitz 1941 Narrative feature The Devil and Daniel Webster William Dieterle 1941 Narrative feature In This Our Life John Huston 1942 Narrative feature The Leopard Man… Read More 100 American Films to Save: Confrontations (1939-1946)
Last year, my year-end review of the movies I watched still had the sheen of professional list-making on itl: I thought about it as, more or less, the fifty best movies I saw that year which I hadn’t seen before, but allowed for some leeway on that front to talk about the movies which I… Read More 2019 Year-End Review: Forty-Five Moments
The following is from my series of Oscar Best Picture rankings, as well as my strongly worded suggestions for what should have won from among the nominees. For an introduction to the project, click here. For a way to vote on some Oscar-related ideas, click here. If I’ve written a review on any of the… Read More Better than the Oscars: 65-61
Seeing Things Secondhand 