Scenes I Love: The Montage from The Parallax View
In Alan J. Pakula’s 1974 film The Parallax View, Warren Beatty plays a seedy journalist who goes undercover to investigate the links between the mysterious Parallax Corporation and a series of recent...
View ArticleEmbracing the Melodrama #40: Bugsy (dir by Barry Levinson)
Let’s continue to embrace the melodrama with the 1991 best picture nominee Bugsy. Gangster Benjamin Siegel (Warren Beatty) may be known as Bugsy but nobody dares call him that to his face. Siegel may...
View ArticleShattered Politics #34: The Parallax View (dir by Alan J. Pakula)
Judging from the films that the decade produced, the 1970s were truly a paranoid time. (Of course, 2015 is a paranoid time as well, which is probably why so many of the classic films of the 70s still...
View ArticleShattered Politics #62: Bulworth (dir by Warren Beatty)
So, if you’ve ever wondered what happened to Robert Redford’s Bill McKay after he was elected to the U.S. Senate at the end of The Candidate, I imagine that he probably ended up becoming something like...
View ArticleThe Alliance of Women Film Journalists Announced Their Picks For The Best of...
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (of which I am not a member and what’s up with that!?) announced their picks for the best of 2016 earlier this week. And here they are: AWFJ BEST OF AWARDS These...
View ArticleLisa Reviews An Oscar Nominee: Bonnie and Clyde (dir by Arthur Penn)
If you’re ever visiting my former hometown of Denton, Texas, you owe it to yourself to do two things. Number one, go to Recycled Books and Records. It’s right across the street from the old courthouse...
View ArticleAn October Film Review: The Night America Trembled (dir by Tom Donovan)
Today is the 79th anniversary of Orson Welles’s infamous War of the Worlds broadcast. In 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Welles’s War of the...
View ArticleLove on the Shattered Lens: Splendor in the Grass (dir by Elia Kazan)
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not,...
View ArticleScene That I Love: Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy 81st birthday to the one and only Faye Dunaway. In honor of this day, I want to share a scene that I love from 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde. Now, Bonnie and Clyde...
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