The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.
THE WILD YEARS: Man / Woman / Motel Room
THE WILD YEARS: MAN / WOMAN / MOTEL ROOM “Give me a script. Any script. I don’t even need to like it.” And I really didn’t care if I liked it. “I need to make a movie again.” And I really needed to. That’s what I told Gus in 2010. I was nearly two years out of...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Breaking Point
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three screen adaptations of Ernest Hemingway's work. As I prepare to make my own, HEMINGWAY'S THE KILLERS, I am studying some other adaptations of the famous author's short stories...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Mulholland Falls, True Confessions, and Devil in a Blue Dress
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three crime films I watched as a reference for my adaptation of Hemingway's THE KILLERS. MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I avoided this one for a while,...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Blow-Ball, Adoption, and Marta Meszaros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films by Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros and one film about her. BLOW-BALL (1965) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I didn’t have much time to study Hungarian cinema while I was...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of The Black Stallion, Rodeo, and The Perils of Priscilla
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two short films and the debut feature film by director Carroll Ballard. THE BLACK STALLION (1979) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars What an incredible feature debut from director...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of No Regrets for Our Youth, The Most Beautiful, and One Wonderful Sunday
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three early melodramas from Akira Kurosawa. NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (1946) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars I've long been a fan of Akira Kurosawa's historical pictures, his...
MOVIE MONDAY: Western Movie Reviews – Week 204 – The Man Called Noon (1973)
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. THE MAN CALLED NOON (1973) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I knew nothing about this 70s Western other than it was directed by Peter Collinson, a director I'd never heard of until I recently watched...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Cast a Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two TV movies made about the Lovecraft detective character. CAST A DEADLY SPELL (1991) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I barely knew this film existed. And I certainly didn't know it...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Spoiled Children, Let Joy Reign Supreme, and Daddy Nostalgia
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three films by one of my favorite French filmmakers, Bertrand Tavernier. SPOILED CHILDREN (1977) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I love Bertrand Tavernier as much for his intense love...
MOVIE MONDAY: Western Movie Reviews – Week 203 – The Quick and the Dead (1987)
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1987) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I finally caught up with this TV Western, I believe the last of Sam Elliott's from this period. He's quite different in this role than he...
