Best Comedies of the Past 20 Years
“Barbershop: The Next Cut” opens Friday, and we’ll see if there’s anything in it that will make it linger in memory, like the original “Barbershop” from 2002. In the meantime, take a look at some of...
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Chaplin’s Home in Switzerland being turned into a Museum
a Peter Cowie has an interesting article on the transformation of Charlie Chaplin’s last residence, in Vevey Switzerland, into what sounds like an intelligent, respectful and imaginatively crafted...
View ArticleScott O’Brien’s “Sylvia Sidney: Paid by the Tear”
Scott O’Brien has written another comprehensive, lovingly researched Hollywood biography. His latest is an overdue look at the life and career of Sylvia Sidney. I think two things have contributed to...
View ArticleBest of the movies based on comics and graphic novels
With “Captain America: Civil War” about to come out on Friday — and who knows, it might even be good — it’s time to remind ourselves, indeed to buck ourselves up by remembering, that not all action...
View ArticleThe Many Ways of Love on Screen
At the risk of scooping myself, I’ll tell you that there is a very good romantic comedy — sort of a comedy, sort of a drama — opening on Friday. It’s called “Maggie’s Plan,” and though it might remind...
View ArticleWoody Allen’s Best Movies
It says something about Woody Allen’s remarkable output that you can list his top 20 films, and there are still another handful of perfectly acceptable movies that didn’t make the cut. He has made...
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“Naked Killer” from 1994
Chingmy Yau in NAKED KILLER, a movie programmed by Elliot Lavine in 1994. I’ve been retweeting old reviews of film programmer Elliot Lavine’s shows, and I realized that everything pre-1995 is...
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The Lon Chaney and Tod Browning Festival from 1994
Lon Chaney (1883-1930) I’m reposting reviews of programs presented by Elliot Lavine, whose final show — I WAKE UP DREAMING: THE END OF NOIR — is playing at the Castro. This Lon Chaney-Tod Browning...
View ArticleThe Mickies 2016 — The Nominations
Most of the critics awards have already been announced, and SAG and THE GOLDEN GLOBES have published their slate of nominees. And so the movie world has waited for the final shoe to drop . . . and...
View ArticleMick LaSalle’s favorite movies of 2016
The other day it occurred to me that it might be interesting and instructive if critics, in addition to issuing a top ten list, also made a list of their FAVORITE movies. That is, movies they simply...
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