Nick’s Movies Blaine Allan September 2013 Feature Articles Jonathan Rosenbaum recently offered some useful, brief observations on two versions of Nicholas Ray’s last film, a collaboration with Wim Wenders. (1) A third (of sorts) also circulated, and considering the var...
Old Saint Nick: We Can’t Go Home Again and Don’t Expect Too Much Blaine Allan July 2012 2012 MIFF Dossier Commemorating Nicholas Ray in his centenary year, in 2011 his last feature-length motion picture, We Can’t Go Home Again (1973-), started doing laps around the festival circuit, sometimes accompanied by Don’t E...
Twentieth Century Prodigal Son: Nicholas Ray – The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan Blaine Allan December 2011 Book Reviews In Bigger Than Life (1956) schoolteacher Ed Avery fragments in the broken medicine-cabinet mirror that his wife Lou furiously slams shut when in a pharmaceutically induced delusion he imperiously gives her an o...
