Photograph gallery of John DiLeo at Out Professionals presentation, Monday, March 10, 2008, 6-8pm. svgallery=outprof

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Far rarer than films that rely on a sole significant performance, or those elevated by a scintillating team, are movies borne aloft by three equally tremendous performances at their centers. I don’t mean films with ensemble casts, such as All About Eve (1950), The Godfather Part II (1974), or Shakespeare in Love (1998), in which [...]

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As a rule, Hollywood—the dream factory—doesn’t make movies about the American dream being a fraud, which is one reason why this film isn’t easily forgotten. In Tucker, the better product is smothered and banished so that the continuing profits of fat corporations can be safeguarded. If Coppola had chosen to tell this true story as [...]

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Five years after receiving enormous acclaim for their screenplay of the groundbreaking, tone-swerving Bonnie and Clyde (1967), writers Robert Benton and David Newman were at it again. Their Bad Company is a worthy companion piece to their ’67 classic, with its doses of comedy, unsettling blasts of violence, travels through a hard-times American heartland, and [...]

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Some exceptional movies are so gentle, and achieve their effects so delicately, that the mere act of recommending them almost feels like a disservice to their charms. Can such movies bear the weight of high expectations? I fear overpraising MGM’s Stars in My Crown because of its simplicity and modesty, two elements that make it [...]

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