Starburst Memories: PROP 6 – “You Talking To Me?”
I’ve written before about my former life as the co-editor of PROP magazine. I was reminded of an article in PROP issue 6 about TAXI DRIVER (1975) while compiling the […]
Tag Archives: Martin Scorsese
Woodython Five (10): Sound and Vision
(Woody’) talent as a scorer of movies is widely overlooked, or is so taken for granted that it passes unremarked upon. Music is such an integral part of Woody’s presentation […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind (2004)
“We don’t want to grow up and be another Walt Disney.” – Bob Weinstein, 1989 In the April 2013 edition of Sight and Sound, Mark Cousins extends a metaphor of […]
Starburst Memories: Woody Allen: A Documentary
This keenly awaited documentary offers to tell you “everything you wanted to know about Woody, but were afraid to ask” is now available on blu-ray and DVD after a […]
Dirk’s Five – Goodfellas Goodbits
If UNFORGIVEN was a 1990s revision of the Western genre, then GOODFELLAs did the same for the gangster genre which was still in the thrall THE GODFATHER and ONCE UPON […]
DOM: Goodfellas (Scorsese, US, 1990)
“Murderers came with smiles, killing people was no big deal, we were good fellas” Martin Scorsese shaved of his beard during the making of this film, he hasn’t been the […]
CHRIS: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Bahr, Hickenlooper, 1991, US)
To me, the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, and some… just people who normally wouldn’t make movies are going to […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 