On three great movies about gamblers: Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels, Robert Altman’s California Split, and Ryan Fleck’s Mississippi Grind.
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Zach D'Amico is a writer and lawyer based in San Francisco. He's usually rewatching old Pacino movies when he’s not at his day job.
Even as the fictional world of Lucas’ painfully personal debut acts as an ode to a man who dares to defy corporate strictures, THX 1138’s very existence is also a dire warning to his future self about the futility of defying such an all-consuming conglomerate.
I learned from the Matt Damon characters I knew growing up: Will Hunting, Tom Ripley, and Mike McDermott. I don’t know if, as a young actor from Boston, Damon struggled with his identity—but I know the roles he took helped me find mine.
Michelangelo Antonioni committed to a faithful adaptation of Julio Cortázar’s Las Babas del Diablo, but specifically to his version of the story.
