Post Tagged 'Adam Driver'

February 08, 2024

Ferrari: The Need for Speed … and Beauty

Michael Mann is famous for crime dramas like Thief (1981), Heat (1995), and Collateral (2004) that suggest that only criminals can be free, since the rest of us are constantly bossed around. Continue Reading...

February 08, 2022

House of Gucci is Ridley Scott’s “Basta!” to the commercialization of art

My first Oscars essay presented Wes Anderson, the Hollywood dandy’s Francophilia, The French Dispatch, and gentle criticism of liberal intellectual pretense. The 2022 Oscar contenders also include an examination of American Italophilia—veteran Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, as full of today’s stars as Anderson’s movies are of yesteryear’s. Continue Reading...