Tag Archives: Jack Nicholson

duel of the giants (film: The Missouri Breaks – Arthur Penn, 1976)

Posted on January 28, 2025 by admin

‘The Missouri Breaks‘, the 1976 film by director Arthur Penn, is the stuff of which cinematic legends are made. Thomas McGuane wrote the screenplay for this revisionist western, a subgenre of cinema that flourished in American cinema after 1966, taking … Continue reading →

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passenger on the train of life (film: The Passenger / Professione: reporter – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)

Posted on July 9, 2020 by admin

Michelangelo Antonioni‘s ‘The Passenger‘ or ‘Professione: reporter‘ (the original title) is a case study of a remarkable film by one of the important directors in the history of cinema, a film that changes its meaning and perspective over time, but … Continue reading →

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a woman dies (Film: The Descendants – George Clooney, 2011)

Posted on June 7, 2017 by admin

The opening sequences of director Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants include a short (maybe less than one second) image of a powerful and beautiful woman surfing on the waves around Hawaii. For most of the rest of the film the woman … Continue reading →

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Film: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

Posted on March 19, 2011 by admin

In the mid-90s I was fascinated by the Danish TV series The Kingdom. The story happened in a hospital which was a labyrinth building that played an active and determining role in the action – a structure built on unsafe … Continue reading →

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