Film Expression

"If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I should not have come....

  The city of Los Angeles has a reputation for being the bearer and recorder of an entire nation's hopes, dreams, and ideals. It was fir...

  Before the arrival of the internet and specifically Wikipedia a common stock character in film was the private investigator. The P.I. was ...

  The gangster genre is endemic of American culture. In the history of film the advent of sound coincided with the rise in popularity of the...

  Unbridled optimism is a trait that has long been ridiculed by the public. It is a trait that is usually used as comic fodder in films; som...

  How do you classify a film that is equal parts comedy and tragedy? Can you even call it comedy if you cringe a bit after the laughter dies...

"Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money and for a woman. I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn'...