Shoot the Glass

Harold (Bud Cort) is young, privileged, and obsessed with death. He frequents funerals of people he doesn’t know, and stages mock suicides to his mother’s great annoyance. He has no friends. At a funeral he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Maude, unlike Harold, is full of life, [...]

Sidney Lumet is one of my very favourite directors. All movies of his that I’ve seen have been excellent, not a stinker among them. He has range, too. He has covered just about every genre there is, and he’s a master at his craft.
Here we have a movie based on true events. Al Pacino is [...]

Sleuth is based on Anthony Shaffer’s play of the same name, and is about two men. The younger of the two, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), intends to marry the wife of the older man, Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), and goes up to his country house to discuss the matter. Wyke has grown weary of his [...]

Let me get this off my chest right now; this movie was far too long for me. Or not necessarily too long per se, but too drawn-out. Anyway, let me get back to that later.
The Deer Hunter tells the story of a group of friends in rural Pennsylvania. Three of them — Michael (Robert DeNiro), [...]

American Graffiti takes place in California in 1962, and one thing is immediately striking: the innocence. This was before the JFK assassination, while the young were still naive and the music was still sweet. The movie centers on four teenage boys, and takes place in one night. They have graduated highschool, and the next morning [...]