A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies. For your viewing and recording pleasure. Friday, June 12 08:00 p.m. PST Scarlet Street. (1945) Perhaps the perfect noir? All the elements are there. Eddie Robinson as the
In The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929 - 1968, Andrew Sarris provided an extremely useful and entertaining appendix he called "Directorial Chronology." It was basically a best American film of the year list with a highly auteurist, idiosyncratic bent. So you would see things like Man's
A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies, for your viewing and recording pleasure. With the release of Spielberg's newest film, Disclosure Day, TCM pays tribute to the master. You don't need me to
Hokum (2026), directed by Damien McCarthy. Oz Perkins and Zach Cregger seem to be getting all the headlines (and now, out of nowhere, Curry Baker – see below), but for my money the Irishman Damien McCarthy is the most interesting horror auteur of this recent age. Adam Scott is a douchey
A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies, for your viewing and recording pleasure. Sunday, May 31 01:30 p.m. PST The Seventh Victim. (1943) Much-adored cult thriller from the producer Val Lewton. Kim Hunter, in
In The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929 - 1968, Andrew Sarris provided an extremely useful and entertaining appendix he called "Directorial Chronology." It was basically a best American film of the year list with a highly auteurist, idiosyncratic bent. So you would see things like Man's
A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies, for your viewing and recording pleasure. Memorial Day weekend offers a plethora of war-themed films, some famous, some fairly obscure, but of auteur interest. Shoulder Arms! Saturday, May 23
In The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929 - 1968, Andrew Sarris provided an extremely useful and entertaining appendix he called "Directorial Chronology." It was basically a best American film of the year list with a highly auteurist, idiosyncratic bent. So you would see things like Man's
A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies, for your viewing and recording pleasure. Not quite the Treasure Trove last week was, but still a few gems to be plucked. Friday, May 15 Gregory Peck day on TCM
In The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929 - 1968, Andrew Sarris provided an extremely useful and entertaining appendix he called "Directorial Chronology." It was basically a best American film of the year list with a highly auteurist, idiosyncratic bent. So you would see things like Man's
If you are wondering what this is all about, please read this Introduction. These are the unsung directors with difficult styles or unfashionable genres or both. Their deeper virtues are often obscured by irritating idiosyncrasies on the surface, but they are generally redeemed by their seriousness and grace. (Notable films
No, Sight and Sound magazine did not call, but here is a ten favorite films list from me anyway. To get to know me. The Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick. High and Low, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Nothing But a Man, directed by Michael Roemer. The Passenger,