Category: Our Favorite Movies

For reasons that have never been made clear to me, Martin Scorsese decided not to make “Clockers.” The film was set up at Universal Studios, Scorsese picked Robert De Niro to play Rocco, the lead, and Richard Price (who wrote the riveting screenplay for Scorsese’s “The Color of Money”) wrote the adaptation from his bestselling… Continue reading Clockers

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is one of the greatest westerns ever made, because it’s so much more than a horse opera or cowboy shoot ’em up. It’s about heroes and mythmaking, why love is so complicated and how two dastardly criminals are so likable, to us and each other. The setting is Wyoming… Continue reading Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Neil Jordan’s “The Crying Game” is about transformation above all else, how honest, self realization can create a personal metamorphosis within ourselves. Specifically, it’s about how love can act as either a blindfold, eclipsing the truth, or an unveiled curtain that sets us free. The opening shot is a deception of sorts, as the camera… Continue reading The Crying Game