I love the way that diamond geezer Ray gave George Lucas the finger on a casting session for Star Wars; very perceptive move seeing how thereafter his obvious talents have been put to waste in his acting forays stateside. Got the Sweeney on my mid tier Love Film list and I might finally decide to watch it one of…

TP's ouvre is the Holy Grail of screen adaptation proof novels; a category Witold Gombrowicz, another favorite writer of mine, should be in; and yet both his masterpieces "Pornografia" and "Ferdydurke" have begotten filmic bastards in his native Poland (the latter with Crispin Glover in the lead,no less) and both with…

I believe the movie you are referring to is "Homo Faber" directed by the serial adapter Volker Schlondorff not Wim Wenders.