With Thief, Mann leaves plain an American standard–the gangster movie. Halfway through the film, I wondered how it fit, as the energy the film opens with is gone. The film moves these awkwardly handled scenes without much flare. These scenes are presented as the standard dramatic scenes, but with something not quite right about the […]
Entries Tagged as 'James Caan'
Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: James Caan· John Seybold· Michael Mann· Tuesday Weld· United Artists· ★★★★
Rollerball (1975, Norman Jewison)
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Somehow, it’s impossible to find an actual Tarkovsky quote regarding 2001 online, just tidbits about Solaris being his humanist response to that film.
Damn.
I wanted to open with a comment about Norman Jewison sharing the opinion about the science fiction genre.
Rollerball’s a technical masterpiece. Jewison’s sense of composition and editing have never been better. It’s unfortunate, very […]
Tagged: James Caan· John Houseman· Norman Jewison· United Artists· William Harrison· ★★½
Flesh and Bone (1993, Steve Kloves)
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Dennis Quaid’s performance in Flesh and Bone is complicated. The character, the hints the film offers into him, is more complicated, but Quaid’s performance somehow encapsulates all those unknowns without defining them. The film has some really strange touching scenes, as Quaid’s character lets down the wall long enough to express himself. And the anguish […]
Tagged: Dennis Quaid· James Caan· Paramount Pictures· Steve Kloves· ★★★★
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
April 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Talking about The Godfather earnestly has got to be hard. Also talking about it not in relation to its sequel–which happens less and less these days, something I’m going to blame on the sequel discussion scene in Scream 2. It’s stunningly unsurprising. My most profound observations this viewing–and its been ten years or so, since […]
Tagged: Al Pacino· Francis Ford Coppola· James Caan· Mario Puzo· Marlon Brando· Paramount Pictures· Robert Duvall· Sterling Hayden· ★★★★



