by Travis Mills | May 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Travis Mills | Apr 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Travis Mills | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. JOE KIDD (1972) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I haven’t seen JOE KIDD since I was a kid and remembered barely anything about it except a scene that took place in a bell tower. It was time to...
by Travis Mills | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on a double feature with two movies set in and around swimming pools, THE SWIMMER and LA PISCINE. THE SWIMMER (1968) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars How do you turn a short story of less...
by Travis Mills | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Travis Mills | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
