Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979)

I really liked director Joan Micklin Silver’s Between The Lines, how much of a hang out movie it was, about a staff at a street press soon to be acquired by a corporate publisher. Silver’s next film, Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979), is also a hang out film, except you are stuck with Charles (John […]

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Light Sleeper (1992)

Is the definition of an auteur just making the same movie over and over again? To follow the recurring symbols and themes across the decades and to see someone keep returning to their obsessions. For director-writer Paul Schrader, he’s returned to a certain archetype – the ‘God’s Lonely Man’ – from his script to Taxi […]

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