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 […]

Local Hero (1983)

After rave reviews from a Year in Cinema: 1983 book I would read in the high school library and growing up with my parents owning the Mark Knopfler soundtrack on CD, I finally watched Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983) on a DVD I purchased, the prototypical ‘business man charmed by small town’/’fish out of water’ […]