THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK (1969)

On a random chilly day in Vancouver, a wealthy woman of undetermined age named Frances Austen spots a boy, teetering somewhere between his late teens and early twenties, sitting on a park bench adjacent to her home. The day grows colder and is then is finally saturated with rain, yet he doesn’t budge from the […]

COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN (1982)

With cinematographer Pierre Mingot’s camera crawling across the dusty and crowded aisles of the shabby Woolworth’s five-and-dime aided by nothing but the sound of the hot Texas wind blowing in the background, the stillness is shocking and the silence is deafening. After the assaultive soundtracks and busy tableaux of Robert Altman’s body of work from […]