Report To The Commissioner (1975)

There’s so much location footage of old Times Square New York in Report To The Commissioner (1975), that it IS its own character, a document of a New York from long ago, crowded streets witnessing a spectacular filmed foot chase or extras interacting with method actors playing cops. This movie is like a lost Sidney […]

Prince Of The City (1981)

I bought Prince Of The City (1981) on iTunes last year and had always been putting it off because it was three hours long. Finally sat with it one night, director Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the true story concerning Daniel Ciello (a career best performance by Treat Williams), a cocky narcotics squad detective who suffers […]

Girlfriends (1978)

Girlfriends (1978) is a buried treasure of independent cinema whose influence was touted awhile back by Lena Dunham (who held a revival screening and hired director Claudia Weill to helm an episode of Girls). It also feels like the inspiration to filmmakers like Nicole Holofcener, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, etc as it is about […]