Author: Jonathan Eig
The AFI’s 30th annual Latin American Film Festival
The American Film Institute’s 30th annual Latin American Film Festival concluded last week. Fifty-three new movies. Twenty-three countries represented (throughout Central and South America, as well as entries from Spain and Portugal). It is always one of the highlights of the year for foreign film lovers in the DC area. I was only able to…
Burgess Meredith: What Shakespeare, Batman & Rocky Have in Common
James L. Brooks once won an argument about who was the better actor between Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman by pointing out that Nicholson could have played both halves of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, while Hoffman only would have excelled at playing persnickety fusspot Felix Unger. There may be some holes in the logic,…
The most interesting “American” movies
There has been a president and a gangster. There has been history and graffiti. Beauty and splendor. Hustle and crime. There has been a sniper, and a psycho, and a gigolo. There has been honey. There has been pie. Indeed, American movies seem to be constantly examining what it is to be American. In all…
Game of Thrones Season 8: A (Partial) Defence
You know what I hate? I hate when professional sportscasters tell sports fans to chill out over a bad call that cost their team a championship because, after all, “it’s only a game.” Mind you, I don’t disagree with the sentiment. I just object to the messenger. That professional sportscaster has made a nice living…
Every Oscar nominee ranked from worst to best
Let’s get this out of the way right now. I didn’t see Mirai. I intended to. Had a special screening targeted last week. But I got sick and missed and that’s all there is to that story. (Other than getting a flu shot does not guarantee you will not get the flu.) Now, I could…