Revisiting the Greatest Christmas Film Ever: Die Hard (1988)
Reprint of a revised Editor’s Blog on my preferred Christmas film, Die Hard (1988), and perhaps the greatest action film around.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
The week Mons. Hitchcock talked shop with Mons. Truffaut
Review of Kent Jones’ 2015 documentary on the momentous meeting in 1966 between Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut that resulted in a classic tome on filmmaking + a lengthy Editor’s Blog on the book’s personal impact.
BR: Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
By 1962, Francois Truffaut, then a hot director on the international film scene, had directed three film – The 400 Blows (1959), Shoot the Piano Player (1960), and Jules and Jim (1962) – and decided to draw from his work as a film critics and journalist at Cahiers du cinéma, and devote a significant chunk of time to setting up a series of discussions with idol Alfred Hitchcock over 8 days…
The Return of the Byzantine Mystery: Jean-Christophe Grangé’s The Passenger (2014)
Review of The Passenger / Le Passager (2014), the French detective mini-series based on the novel and written by Jean-Christophe Grangé, and released on DVD via MHz Networks.
DVD: Passenger, The / Passager, Le (2014)
Jean-Christophe Grangé is the master of the over-convoluted mystery, and it’s no surprise his latest work, scripting the TV adaptation of his novel The Passenger / Le Passager, starts with another curiosity-inducing hook that takes the viewer through a whirlwind of confusion…
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