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Writing About Film
I've been a movie fan for all my life, dating back to when my college professor-mom would screen movies on a bedsheet in our living room. When I was in college, I took a number of film criticism classes, most notably a course focusing on movies about the Vietnam War. I wrote a number of papers about those films. Then, in the early 1990s, I actually published some movie reviews, in the progressive weekly In These Times.
This section of my website compiles many of those (published & unpublished) film reviews, as well as some of the college papers. Looking back on them now, I fear they suffer from an overdose of politically correct moralism (I did go to Oberlin in the late 1980s, after all!), but they do contain some degree of insight, and thus seem worth sharing. So if you're interested, take a look...
The Addams FamilyBarry Sonnenfeld, 1991Published in In These Times, 1991 Doc HollywoodMichael Caton-Jones, 1991Published in In These Times, 1991 EatingHenry Jaglom, 1990Unpublished, 1991 Hannah and Her SistersWoody Allen, 1986Paper for The Films of Woody Allen class, 1987 JFKOliver Stone, 1991Unpublished, 1992 Regarding HenryMike Nichols, 1991Unpublished, 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of ThievesKevin Reynolds, 1991Unpublished, 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryNicholas Meyer, 1991Unpublished, 1992 Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese, 1976Paper for Film Noir Cinema class, 1987 |
THE VIETNAM PAPERSApocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola, 1979Paper for Vietnam and the Cinema class, 1988 The Deer HunterMichael Cimino, 1978Paper for Vietnam and the Cinema class, 1988 Full Metal JacketStanley Kurbick, 1987Paper for Vietnam and the Cinema class, 1988 The Green BeretsRay Kellogg, John Wayne, and Mervyn LeRoy, 1968Paper for Vietnam and the Cinema class, 1988 PlatoonOliver Stone, 1986Paper for Vietnam and the Cinema class, 1988 Rambo: First Blood Part IIGeorge P. Cosmatos, 1985Paper for Vietnam and the Cinema class, 1988 Vietnam Films OverviewPaper for Recent America: 1941 to the Present course, 1989
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