Cinematic Soulmates: Raging Bull and Boogie Nights

Obsession is a favorite topic of many filmmakers, and it’s one that you see recur quite often in cinema.  Films as diverse as Sunrise (1927), Amadeus (1984), Zodiac (2007), Jaws (1975) and countless others have all touched upon the subject of obsession in one way or another.  Quite often, the films are about the way in which obsession leads to […]

Read more

Cinematic Soulmates: The King of Comedy and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

For some people, fame is like a drug, and their desire to attain it becomes the driving force of their lives.  This has been the case for a very long time, but it seems to have reached a sort of fevered pitch in the modern era.  The rise of “reality television” would seem to bear this out.   Indeed, for over […]

Read more