The Lens

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 3, 2010 - Blake Edwards has never been an easy filmmaker to pin down. With his first major…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 22, 2009 - He was the most provocative and stubborn (read: argumentative) of film critics, yet…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 14, 2009 - Robert Altman was notoriously averse - no, make that outright hostile - to the idea…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 13, 2009 - The highlight of my recent trip to Amsterdam was seeing "Up" at the Tuchinski…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 13, 2009 - The end of the year is rapidly approaching (but not the end of the decade, so will…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 7, 2009 - Any education is a form of seduction, from falling in love with an academic subject to…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 3, 2009 - The first remarkable thing about Kent Mackenzie's "The Exiles," a small but powerful…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 30, 2009 - I'm fairly certain that prior to seeing "The Damned United" I had never heard the…

This article fist appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 25, 2009 - Another biography of Andy Warhol ? Is there really anything left to say about the pop…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 23, 2009 - Luis Bunuel 's life as a filmmaker was divided between two countries, neither of them…