ADAM McKAY Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 2018. Annapurna Pictures, Gary Sanchez Productions, Plan B Entertainment. Screenplay by Adam McKay. Cinematography by Greig Fraser. Produced by Megan Ellison, Will Ferrell, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, Kevin J. Messick, Brad Pitt. Music by Nicholas Britell. Production Design by Patrice Vermette. Costume Design by Susan Matheson. Film Editing by Hank Corwin. Golden Globe…
This Land Is Mine (1943)
JEAN RENOIR Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. USA, 1943. Jean-Renoir- Dudly Nichols Productions, RKO Radio Pictures. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Cinematography by Frank Redman. Produced by Dudley Nichols, Jean Renoir. Music by Lothar Perl. Production Design by Eugène Lourié. Costume Design by Renié. Film Editing by Frederic Knudtson. Academy Awards 1943. An small, unnamed European country is suffering under Nazi occupation, the brutish…
The Sterile Cuckoo
ALAN J. PAKULA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. USA, 1969. Boardwalk Productions. Screenplay by Alvin Sargent, based on the novel by John Nichols. Cinematography by Milton R. Krasner. Produced by Alan J. Pakula. Music by Fred Karlin. Production Design by Roland Anderson. Costume Design by John A. Anderson, Jennifer L. Parsons. Film Editing by Sam O’Steen, John W. Wheeler. Academy Awards 1969. Golden Globe Awards…
Postcards From London (2018)
STEVE McLEAN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. United Kingdom, 2018. Diablo Films, BFI Film Fund, Creativity Capital. Screenplay by Steve McLean. Cinematography by Annika Summerson. Produced by Soledad Gatti-Pascual. Music by Julian Bayliss. Production Design by Ollie Tiong. Costume Design by Kate Forbes. Film Editing by Stephen Boucher. Harris Dickinson, once again playing gay bait dipped in body oil, is a young man…
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
JOSEPHINE DECKER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5. USA, 2018. Parris Pictures, Forager Films, Bow and Arrow Entertainment. Screenplay by Josephine Decker, Donna di Novelli, story consultant Gail Segal, story editor Sharon Mashihi, dramaturg Alexandra Tatarsky. Cinematography by Ashley Connor. Produced by Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao. Music by Caroline Shaw. Production Design by Charlotte Royer. Costume Design by Sarah Maiorino. Film Editing by Harrison…
Nancy (2018)
CHRISTINA CHOE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 2018. Mental Pictures, EON Productions, Gamechanger Films, XS Media. Screenplay by Christina Choe. Cinematography by Zoe White. Produced by Michelle Cameron, Amy Lo, Andrea Riseborough. Music by Peter Raeburn. Production Design by Charlotte Royer. Costume Design by Tere Duncan. Film Editing by David Gutnik. Andrea Riseborough gives a committed performance as a thoroughly unappealing…
Career Girls (1997)
MIKE LEIGH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. United Kingdom/France, 1997. Channel Four Films, Thin Man Films, Matrix Films, Channel 4 Television Corporation. Screenplay by Mike Leigh. Cinematography by Dick Pope. Produced by Simon Channing Williams. Music by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Tony Remy. Production Design by Eve Stewart. Film Editing by Robin Sales. Mike Leigh scores a rare misfire with this drab story…
The Great Caruso (1951)
RICHARD THORPE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1951. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Screenplay by Sonya Levien, William Ludwig, suggested by the biography of Enrico Caruso by Dorothy Caruso. Cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Produced by Joe Pasternak. Music by Johnny Green, Peter Herman Adler. Production Design by Cedric Gibbons, Gabriel Scognamillo. Costume Design by Helen Rose, Gile Steele. Film Editing by Gene Ruggiero. Academy Awards 1951. …
The Exorcist III (1990)
WILLIAM PETER BLATTY Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 1990. Morgan Creek Entertainment. Screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his novel Legion. Cinematography by Gerry Fisher. Produced by Carter deHaven. Music by Barry De Vorzon. Production Design by Leslie Dilley. Costume Design by Dana Lyman. Film Editing by Peter Lee-Thompson, Todd C. Ramsay. William Peter Blatty takes the franchise over as both…
Quicksand (1950)
IRVING PICHEL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1950. Samuel H. Stiefel Productions. Screenplay by Robert Smith. Cinematography by Lionel Lindon. Produced by Mort Briskin. Music by Louis Gruenberg. Production Design by Boris Leven. Costume Design by Joan Joseff. Film Editing by Walter Thompson. Mickey Rooney plays an auto mechanic who is out drinking with the boys when he spots a dangerous blonde…
The Hurricane (1937)
JOHN FORD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBBB. USA, 1937. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols, adaptation by Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall. Cinematography by Bert Glennon. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day. Costume Design by Omar Kiam. Film Editing by Lloyd Nosler. Academy Awards 1937. This excellent…
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5. United Kingdom, 1927. Gainsborough Pictures, Carlyle Blackwell Productions. Screenplay by Eliot Stannard, from the novel and play by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Cinematography by Gaetano di Ventimiglia. Produced by Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell. Production Design by C. Wilfred Arnold, Bertram Evans. Film Editing by Ivor Montagu. This early classic by Alfred Hitchcock shows the master…
