Oeuvre: Altman: Gosford Park
It takes over an hour for someone to ask the most important question at the heart of Robert Altman’s acerbic murder mystery Gosford Park: “Why do we spend our time living through them?” This is a...
View ArticleOeuvre: Altman: The Company
Films about performance troupes and the artistic process typically begin on the level of character, allowing the audience to connect with one or two particular artists before gradually spiraling...
View ArticleOeuvre: Altman: A Prairie Home Companion
Though Robert Altman was in the process of developing a new movie when he died of leukemia in the fall of 2006, the 81-year-old auteur must have known A Prairie Home Companion, released just a few...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: Alien 3
Looking back at 1992’s Alien 3, one finds both a story of production woes and an early glimpse of the future for David Fincher. Looking to build upon the critical and popular success of Ridley Scott’s...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: Se7en
Apathy is the driving force in David Fincher’s detective thriller Se7en, as hero and villain alike lash out at this perceived blight on civilization. Retiring gumshoe William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: The Game
The David Fincher we know today has a distinct style, pronounced enough that his latest film, The Killer, has been interpreted as a self-reflexive parody of his own cold and methodical filmmaking...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: Fight Club
In the quarter of a century since its theatrical release, David Fincher’s Fight Club has gone from box office bomb to cult classic to the brightest of red flags whenever it’s featured on someone’s...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: Panic Room
Across a dozen features, David Fincher has cultivated one of the most cohesive modern oeuvres, delineating and exploring a world whose free-flowing cruelty channels directly into his protagonists’...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: Zodiac
When David Fincher was a child growing up in the Bay Area — specifically in Marin County, due north across the Golden Gate’s majestic span – his parents briefly fretted about him riding the bus to...
View ArticleOeuvre: Fincher: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
In the shadow of a most peculiar clock, when the world was at war the first time around, a man was born under unusual circumstances. True, he lived and experienced and suffered and celebrated like the...
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