Posts By Barry Wurst

The car halts to a stop and, to our relief, we see a little kid is sitting in the road, inches from the grill of the vehicle. Franco’s Tomas Eldan, a …
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While “Behind the Scenes” articles, electronic press kits and fan reporting give modern films a transparent quality on their making, Truffaut’s book of chats with Alfred Hitchcock was a rare, …
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Annual viewings in either my film classes or on my own only solidified my deep infatuation with it. The story of the American Dream, gone horribly wrong, as embodied by …
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From the moment I heard Stanley Kubrick was making another film, I grasped every nugget of information I could find on the project. Tom Cruise let it slide, during a 1996 …
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In 1988, the lead-up to the opening of Martin Scorsese’ “The Last Temptation of Christ” was universally polarizing, rage inducing and provided fodder for countless talking heads. It was, appropriately enough, …
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The sculpture began in 1948 and is still unfinished. Even more worrisome is how, due to being created on pegmatite granite, the sculpture may not last and eventually fall away. …
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