Monthly Archives: November 2019

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (Allan Arkush, 1979)

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Budd Wilkins

“The release of George Lucas’s American Graffiti in 1973 unleashed a groundswell of films and television shows that wistfully gazed back at the “good old days” of the late 1950s and early ‘60s, before the “loss of innocence” signaled by the JFK … Continue reading →

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Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973)

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Budd Wilkins

“Flush from the success of Dirty Harry, Don Siegel at last found himself possessed with sufficient clout to imprint his next work, Charley Varrick, with the auteurist stamp “A Siegel Film,” a rubric that appears on screen before any other title … Continue reading →

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63 Up (Michael Apted, 2019)

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Budd Wilkins

“Intimations of mortality inform much of 63 Up, the ninth and latest installment of director Michael Apted’s monumental Up series, which has checked in with a representative cross-section of 14 Britons every seven years since 1964, when they were seven years old.” … Continue reading →

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Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, 1946)

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Budd Wilkins

“Ernst Lubitsch’s final finished film is a deceptively lighthearted exploration of class and gender issues in Britain on the brink of World War II.” I review the AV quality and bonus materials on Criterion’s recent release over at Slant Magazine.

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