Tag Archives: Heath Ledger

Five Film Favorites: Film Assholes

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

The film asshole is a particular type that comes in many breeds. They are most often antagonists, but not all film villains are assholes. For example, Heath Ledger’s Joker and Darth Vader are classic and iconic villains, yet no one … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Lists | Tagged Aliens, Angela Lansbury, assholes, Avatar, Darth Vader, Farley Granger, Heath Ledger, Joker, Lagaan, Murder She Wrote, Paul Blackthorne, Paul Reiser, Robert Walker, Spaceballs, Stephen Lang, Strangers on a Train, The Manchurian Candidate, villains | 2 Comments

Five Film Favorites: Male Face Objects

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

A few months back, during the highly successful James River Film Festival, I wrote a small piece about Robert Mitchum. Without cutting and pasting what I wrote in that post, I will here briefly summarize that I felt that Robert Mitchum met many of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Film | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Brokeback Mountan, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Fistful of Dollars, Gran Torino, Greta Garbo, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Heath Ledger, High and Low, In the Heat of the Night, Lillies of the Field, Robert Mitchum, Roland Barthes, Sergio Leone, Sidney Poitier, The Dark Knight, The Defiant Ones, The Face of Garbo, The Hidden Fortress, The Patriot, Toshiro Mifune | 2 Comments

Five Film Favorites: Blockbusters

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

Given the task of writing this week’s five film favorites, I thought about producing a list of my five favorite Terrence Malik films, but that would have been an easy cop-out. Plus, I would have had to include The New … Continue reading →

Posted in Lists | Tagged A.O. Scott, Aliens, Blockbusters, Christopher Nolan, Gore Verbinski, Heath Ledger, Iron Man 2, James Camerion, Jaws, Johnny Depp, Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pear, Roger Ebert, Steven Spielberg, The Dark Knight, Thor | 4 Comments

Five Film Favorites: Westerns set in the 20th Century

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

When I first began writing for the James River Film Journal, the first article I came across was F.T. Rea’s “Five Film Favorites: Westerns.” Rea’s list spanned from Stagecoach (1939) to Unforgiven (1992) and contained films from the ’40s, ’50s, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lists | Tagged Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ethan Coen, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ji-woon Kim, Joel Coen, John Ford, Josh Brolin, Junior Bonner, No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson, Roger Deakins, Sam Peckinpah, Stagecoach, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Good the Bad the Weird, The Wild Bunch, There Will Be Blood, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Unforgiven, Westerns | Leave a comment

5 Worst Films Directed By Christopher Nolan

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Ted Salins

Having seen Inception recently at the Byrd, I can now say what I’ve always detected – Christopher Nolan is the most celebrated, beloved bad director since Ed Wood. Noland makes impossibly illogical movies that his fans mistake for depth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Film, Reviews | Tagged Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday, Batman, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight, Darth Vader, Ed Wood, Heath Ledger, Inception, Insomnia, Joker, Leonardo DiCaprio, Memento, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Nikola Tesla, Pedro Almodovar, Prestige, Shutter Island | 27 Comments

Violent Style without Ethical Substance: “Inglourious Basterds” and the Italian Western

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

In F.T. Rea’s post of favorite Westerns, Rea cleverly and accurately assigned each film with a word: High Noon is about honor. Lonely Are the Brave is about freedom. Stagecoach is about survival. Treasure of the Sierra Madre is about … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Film, Reviews | Tagged Aldo Raine, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Clint Eastwood, Col. Hans Landa, Eli Wallach, Ennio Morricone, Five Film Favorites, Good the Bad and the Ugly, Heath Ledger, High Noon, Inglorious Basterds, Italian Westerns, John Ford, Joker, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Lee Van Cleef, Lonely Are the Brave, Quentin Tarantino, Revenge of a Gunfighter, Searchers, Sergio Leone, Stagecoach, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Unforgiven | 8 Comments

Tag Archives: Heath Ledger

Five Film Favorites: Film Assholes

Five Film Favorites: Male Face Objects

Five Film Favorites: Blockbusters

Five Film Favorites: Westerns set in the 20th Century

5 Worst Films Directed By Christopher Nolan

Violent Style without Ethical Substance: “Inglourious Basterds” and the Italian Western

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