remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
Josie And The Pussycats is a film that I think could have appealed to two very separate audiences but instead just ended up getting lost to both.
Read MoreFour Minutes (Vier Minuten) is about an elderly piano teacher who trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary. Wait, don't go!!! I know what you’re thinking... It’s Dangerous Minds meets Freedom Writers meets (insert names of any of the dozen other movies where troubled youth are helped by a teach/mentor and everything turns out good in the end). This isn't that though...
Read MoreFor my birthday back over a decade ago one of my best friends gave me the No Direction Home dvd (remember DVDs?). I was very happy when I got it and added it to my DVD collection right away. However, as anyone with a large movie collection can tell you, it’s very easy for movies to get lost in there. And that is what happened with this one. But, about a year later, it popped its head out from the crowded shelf and caught my eye and so it was time to finally watch it.
No Direction Home is a Martin Scorsese directed documentary about the life and career of Bob Dylan. And I can say that after having watched the film back all those years ago I felt like I knew a whole lot more about Dylan while at the same time still don't knowing him at all. And I think that is the point.
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