The following article on The Great Santini is part of Esmarelda’s Summer Seventies Series. I’ve been taking a Directing course at UCLA on Thursday nights for the past ten weeks and about two weeks ago I found myself stranded ...
There is a great scene in “Ocean’s Twelve” (a very underrated chapter in the “Ocean’s” series) where Brad Pitt (Rusty) and George Clooney (Danny) haze Matt Damon’s Linus, who has requested to take on more of a leadership role in ...
The following is part of Esmarelda’s Summer Seventies Series. “Wanda” is a week in the life of an aimless alcoholic who is less struggling to survive and more falling into the next free meal. She is too slow to work ...
The following is a part of Esmarelda’s Summer Seventies Series I’ll tell you one thing about me: I am nothing if not a sucker for a great intro. The slick harmonica that plays over the credits of “Buck and the ...
The following feature on Five Easy Pieces is part of “Esmarelda’s Summer Seventies Series.” Five Easy Pieces is about a man who can’t break up with his girlfriend. The movie begins as Bobby DuPea (Nicholson) comes home from a ...