“All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don’t believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people.” In the words of screenwriter Paul Schrader, narrated by Robert de Niro’s Travis Bickle in Martin Read more…
’Rebel Without a Cause’, a reflexion on post-WWII youth, directed by Nicholas Ray in 1955 and starring James Dean. Jim Stark (Dean) is a troubled teenager who just moved to Los Angeles with his parents. With no real father figure (his own father’s manhood is a joke), he has a Read more…
‘The Graduate’ (1967) directed by Mike Nichols; boy meets older woman who knows exactly what she wants, then boy falls in love with woman’s daughter who does not have any idea what she wants. This loss of innocence tale has three very distinct chapters focusing on the journey of Benjamin Read more…
‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’; Milos Forman’s 1975 movie is a tale of non-conformism… with a twist. 5* Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is a sane guy who finds himself in tricky situations, the latest one being accused of statutory rape on a 15 year old; he tries to avoid Read more…