Category Archives: Reviews & Commentary
The Freshman: All in the Family?
The Freshman is the one film I’d take to a desert island. It’s my favorite movie—though I know it’s not great—partly because it parodies one of my favorite great movies, The Godfather. Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) goes to NYU as … Continue reading
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Tagged A doorway on Boylston St., Al Pacino, Bert Parks, Bruno Kirby, family, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Maximilian Schell, Paul Benedict, Penelope Ann Miller, Reviews by Richard R. Guzman, The Freshman, The Godfather, The Godfather 2
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6 Days / 49 Films
FILM CENTRAL Second Annual Fall Festival, Sept. 16-21, presents 49 films from 6 states and 16 countries. For the second year in a row North Central College will be one of the four sites of the Fifth Annual Naperville Independent … Continue reading
Lake Tahoe: The Style of Absence
There’s a lot of absence in Fernando Eimbcke’s odd but ultimately moving film Lake Tahoe. Reason, for one thing, and Plot, at least initially, as well as smooth transitions. Eimbcke simply cuts to black, sometimes staying there many seconds before … Continue reading →