Tag archives for Liv Tyler

“Cookie’s Fortune” (1999): Robert Altman’s End of History (Review)

★★★½ I don’t believe in the end of history. Count me proudly among those many – left, right, and center – who mocked ol’ Francis Fukuyama for his book, and still adheres to the imperfect, yet far more perceptive word of Fukuyama’s old teacher Samuel Huntington and his response essay The Clash of Civilizations?  Back […]

“The Lord of the Rings” (2001-03): V’s Favorite Movie

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on the Cinematic Katzenjammer in December, 2018. “You’re a critic?  What’s your favorite movie?” I’m asked this a lot, and I often suspect that people are looking for an obscurer answer than the one in my pocket.  But it also feels like asking “what’s my favorite dream.” Although […]