john huston Reviews, Interviews & More
The Dead, the film, feels like a classic novel. But that should come as no surprise. For writer/director John Huston the written word was often a source of inspiration, and for his last film he turned to James Joyce's final short story in Dubliners, The Dead. A family collaboration of sorts, Huston directed his daughter Anjelica while also writing...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre has nearly everything I could ask for in a Hollywood classic, a tight and well-told story, legendary actors at their best, and solid production value. The subject matter runs deep, as it even tackles a heavy topic such as capitalism. It may even be the first time that cinema provided us with a...
A father is meant to be his daughter's first love and his son's first hero. But what happens when that father turns out to be an insane serial killer? The movies have given us some of the most dastardly dads we could think of. We're talking everything from verbal and physical abusers to child molesters to cold-blooded killers. So, this Father's Day, give your old man a hug and thank him for...
The Academy (Linwood Dunn Theatre):
Fri 3 at 7.30 : Yojimbo (1961)
Sat 4 at 7.30: Dersu Uzala (1975)
The Academy's three-month tribute to Kurosawa Akira has of course been tremendous, but has hardly delved deep into his filmography (confining itself to those films the academy nominated in some category). Yojimbo was up for best black and white...
