Author Archive for: ‘Brad Stevens’

Uploaded 1 March 2001 “It’s a comedy about subjects which more easily lend themselves to tragedy (…)The Pick-Up Artist was more of a collaboration than any other film by far, but my original intentions were clear throughout, changed throughout.” James Toback [1] James Toback’s The Pick-Up Artist (US 1987) might usefully be approached via a question: What motivated me to watch this …

Uploaded 30 June 2000 Robert Aldrich is among the most important Hollywood filmmakers. His uncompromising assaults on the America of McCarthy and Nixon, while hardly endearing him to the Academy, give his work an integrity and relevance such overtly ‘political’ directors as Stanley Kramer could only dream of. World for Ransom (USA 1954) was the first in a series of films that …