Fellini’s Fall by William S. Pechter By now, given the mass defections from the already thinned ranks of the Fellini camp that have been caused by…
1976 Minus One by William S. Pechter By common consent, last year was the worst year for movies within recent memory-that is, unless one remembers the year…
American Activities by William S. Pechter Some fifteen years ago, I interviewed a director, Abraham Polonsky, whose first film, Force of Evil (he'd previously written Body…
Hitchcock in Retrospect by William S. Pechter I'm usually skeptical about the authenticity of remarks some critics have a knack for overhearing in an audience, but then…
Altman, Chabrol, and Ray by William S. Pechter There's a sense in which, had Robert Altman's new film been better, I probably would have liked it less.
From the Potomac to the Missouri by William S. Pechter Some years before Richard Nixon became President, Robert Osborn drew a picture of him that remains to this day a…
Obsessions by William S. Pechter I fidgeted my way through at least two-thirds of The Story of Adele H., waiting for it to get off…
Kubrick and Peckinpah Revisited by William S. Pechter I went to Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon with less than great expectations: Kubrick's last film was A Clockwork Orange, which…
Watching Lina Wertmuller by William S. Pechter Like many members of Lina Wertmuller's American audience, I saw Love and Anarchy before seeing any of her other films,…
Man Bites Shark (& Other Curiosities) by William S. Pechter If the fact that Jaws has now surpassed the U.S. earnings (it's not yet been released abroad) of any film…
Trashville by William S. Pechter Why make a film about-and full of-country music, if you don't like it?
Antonioni ’75 by William S. Pechter Ambiguous clues point to a murder having taken place, and a photographer sets out to establish if it has. A…