Directed by Louis Malle Lou (Burt Lancaster) is an aged gangster who longs for the mythologized days of old, and Sally (Susan Sarandon) is a young waitress who hopes to absorb some of his sophistication. Though they live next door to each other it's only over the course of a handful of days that they … Continue reading Atlantic City (1980)
Burt Lancaster
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
Directed by Robert Wise Burt Lancaster is the symbol of virtue, it seems, in just about all of his most iconic roles. Maybe he's not so much so in films like The Sweet Smell of Success and others I can't think of right now, but when I picture Lancaster I picture Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The … Continue reading Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
The Train (1964)
Directed by John Frankenheimer There's a lot of deep focus in The Train and, from what I recall, other John Frankenheimer films like The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May. Let's start there... These are all political films, much more about conflicts between ideologies than between individuals. We see them in deep focus, carefully staged, so that … Continue reading The Train (1964)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Directed by John Frankenheimer Seven Days in May is a political thriller set in the imagined future of 1970. Shot in 1963, not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film discusses the threat of nuclear war at a time when that threat was very real. Wait, that's today. Before we meet President Jordan Lyman … Continue reading Seven Days in May (1964)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Directed by John Frankenheimer Birdman of Alcatraz is a little too long. That's my first thought. I can only listen to the soothing musings of Burt Lancaster for so long, and with this movie I started to tune him out at around the 100 minute mark. Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a murderer quick to anger. … Continue reading Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
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