“Avatar is a Trojan horse strategy that gets you into a piece of entertainment, but then works on your brain and your heart a little bit in a way”–Cameron
Oscar Directors: Cameron, James–Only Making ‘Avatar’ Movies for the Last 20 Years on the Basis They ‘Can Do Some Good,’ Not Just Make Money
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Taxi Driver (1976): Cinema’s Memorable Moments–Mirror Scene (Improvised by De Niro….)
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When De Niro did his “are you talking to me?” sequence in front of the mirror you suddenly sensed the degree of anger there–
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Cinema’s Memorable Images–The Final Scene
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Decades later, people are arguing about the ending of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
0 Psycho: Notes–Ending, Food and Sex, Home, Characters
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Psycho: Notes April 11, 2025–972w Ending Psycho ends with the grinning face of Norman, his mother skull superimposed. No previous film had ended with such a griming question mark. There is no rational lancer. Psycho ends with smug psychiatrist in the cop house, a seeming place of order that can impose order on nothing. The […]
Conversation Piece (1974): Visconti’s Penultimate Film, Starring Burt Lancaster and International Cast
August 7, 2025 by
All the prevalent themes in Luchino Visconti’s work–the collision of cultures, the clash between old and new, the sociopolitical gap between generations, the imminence of death–are manifest in Conversation Piece. Conversation Piece Italian theatrical release poster Italian Gruppo di famiglia in un interno This penultimate film reunited the director with Burt Lancaster, who had starred […]
