Home Video Review: The Complete Story of Film

“A lie to tell the truth.” That’s one way that filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins describes the nature of filmmaking in the narration that kicks off the first episode of his epic 15 part, 915 minute long documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey. He’s applying that statement to the Normandy Beach sequence from Steven […]

Review: “The Taking”

John Ford. John Wayne. Cowboys and six-shooters, Native Americans and horses and epic battles to survive not only squabbles with other humans, but the unforgiving landscape they’ve settled in, one made of both towering beauty and abject terror. These elements, and dilemmas physical, moral, and spiritual, have come to define the western film genre. Just […]