Goldeneye

#3 in my Ranking of the James Bond Franchise. There’s a seeming effortlessness to the action scenes here, lent from the fluid camera work and excellent choreography, that I don’t think I’ve seen from a Bond film. Yes, there have been great stunts for a long time, but the action filmmaking here feels just so…

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Shoeshine

Post war Italian cinema fascinates me, mostly because almost every film was made in a world both vibrant and alive with history and absolutely dirt poor. It's a really interesting dichotomy that, even when it's not addressed explicitly, colors nearly every scene. At the heart of almost every Italian film made from the end of…