Category Archives: Films

If you asked people to name great animators you’d get Disney, Hanna-Barbera maybe and then… Not the Fleischer brothers (Betty Boop, Popeye), not Walter Lanz (Woody Woodpecker) or Chuck Jones (Warners) or the “Great” Bob Godfrey. Maybe Terry Gilliam (Monty … Continue reading →

Kubrick followed “A Clockwork Orange” with his second great cinematic masterpiece, “Barry Lyndon” from 1975. The film is based on the book by Thackeray, a lengthy tome, with some episodes removed for the film. The story is of the adventures … Continue reading →

We could not have a list of interesting films without including at least one film by Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film director. The film, from 1972, was based on a book by Stanislaw Lem, the Polish author. Lem apparently did … Continue reading →