Archive - GROSS - cinema history and criticism

GROSS/63 1972, part one - is The Godfather Shakespearean?

Hollywood is tragedy's final home.

Jun 16 •

GROSS REMAKE 1913 - Traffic in Souls - a sophisticated gangster movie from the pre-history of Hollywood

An extraordinarily modern movie - and a prototype for a whole new category.

Jun 15 •

GROSS/63 1972 - The Godfather - and an offer you really can't refuse

For Francis Ford Coppola's greatest work, an essay in three acts - and an opportunity to support the GROSS project

Jun 6 •

GROSS/62 1971 - Diamonds are Forever - “entertainment for men”

Bond is a shabby void (when is MI8 out?).

Jun 3 •

May 2025

GROSS/61 1970 - Love Story - grim corporate weepie

It was meant to stop the New Hollywood. It failed.

May 20 •

GROSS/60 1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - they fought the law

And the law won.

May 13 •

GROSS DISTRACTION - Donald Trump's beef with foreign movie production is real

And he can do something about it.

May 10 •

GROSS REMAKE 1951 - tariffs on movies? Consider this biblical epic, shot in Rome

Republishing this post about Mervin Leroy's Quo Vadis because this complicated story about the globalised movie trade might provide some context for…

May 9 •

April 2025

GROSS/59 1968, part two - Stanley Kubrick - brilliant, fastidious, ridiculous

Cinema and Kubrick, too big to fail.

Apr 22 •

GROSS/59 1968, part one - 2001: A Space Odyssey - working in orbit

Stanley Kubrick and Bong Jon Ho give us two very different space workplaces

Apr 15 •

GROSS DISTRACTION - The Brutalist - holocaust as plot twist

I'm struggling to phrase this without sounding like an idiot (I mean more like an idiot than usual).

Apr 10 •

GROSS OBIT - Val Kilmer - the fundamental unit

If there has to be an absolute standard for movie fame…

Apr 6 •

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