It’s been said to dissect comedy is like trying to wrestle it to the floor and break its arm—the point being, of course, that explaining what makes a thing funny will almost certainly render it unfunny. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen with Jordan Brady’s documentary I Am Comic, a film that tries less to explain what […]
Even though it’s only been about a year since King of Hearts (1966) was run locally, it’s nice to see this early cult classic (maybe the first film deserving that accolade) being remembered. The film seems a little less of a groundbreaker today, and its soft tone has caused it to be severely downgraded in […]
Stanley Donen’s Charade (1963) is often thought of in terms of ersatz Hitchcock, and that’s understandable, but it really does Donen and the film a disservice, because there are many things about it that are purely Donen. I remember seeing it at the Ritz Theatre in Winter Haven, Fla., when it first came out. I […]
Though largely denigrated at the time of its release in 1965 as inferior to A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester’s second film built around the Beatles, Help!, has been pretty completely vindicated by time. It has also been championed by no less a figure on the film scene than Martin Scorsese, who has compared […]
