How I Watch Films
I don't always watch a film all the way through. The films I write about are usually ones I've seen all the way through. Within a week I write about the film, sometimes right after seeing it. Sometimes I write during the viewing, making note of scenes, characters, then rewriting the whole thing as a crisp post. Sometimes I don't write about movies I've seen. Sometimes I don't watch movies. A few thoughts: Every movie has a Gollum. Fredo in The Godfather Part Two . Herman in The Vampire Bat, Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy . Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook) in All the President's Men is a Gollum. He appears only in a parking structure, a cave, he has precious information, but then, short (Hobbit-like) Dustin Hoffman is in All the President's Men as Carl Bernstein, the less famous of the intrepid Washington Post reporters. Bernstein now offers a pundit's views, for the last...