Originally published by The Untitled Magazine on December 17th, 2025. Before we can have a proper discussion about Bradley Cooper’s new movie, we must first have a proper discussion about Bradley Cooper and his relationship with stardom. Cooper turned 50 this … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
‘SENTIMENTAL VALUE’: A REMARKABLE MOVIE ABOUT FATHERS & DAUGHTERS & THE SECRETS THAT WE CAN’T ESCAPE
Originally published by The Untitled Magazine on November 5th, 2025. “I think it’s time you and I sat down and had a proper talk.” So says Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgard) to his daughter, Nora (Renate Reinsve), during the opening moments of Joachim … Read More
Yosemite: On Ledging Out & Falling Hard & Setting The Tone for an Appropriate Afterword
Originally published by Wayfarer Magazine on June 2nd, 2025. So here we are. It is 9 PM, and I am writing to you from Coarsegold, a central California mining town that is located in the foothills of the High Sierras, … Read More
Brat Facts: Why St. Elmo’s Fire Still Attracts an Audience After 40 Years of Bad Reviews
Originally published by Bright Lights Film Journal on June 28th, 2025. Forty years down the line and here is what you need to know about St. Elmo’s Fire: The movie opens with a car crash, and it doesn’t get any better … Read More
Mukti: A Vision of India in 12 Easy Pieces
Originally published via The Bangalore Review on April 21, 2025. १ I don’t know when it began. I would like to believe that it began five years ago, almost to the day; that it all took place … Read More
Reconsider Me: Retro Cinema, Modern Criticism, and ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’
Originally published via The Untitled Magazine on February 13th, 2025. I want to take you back to the seventies, to a time when a select few of America’s film critics operated like kingmakers, when their opinions could make or break … Read More
I Always Say I Love You First
Originally published via X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine on October 9th, 2024. I want to tell you about a day in late August of 2009. It is just past noon, and this is a clear day, a gorgeous day with almost zero headwind. I … Read More
DAVID FINCHER’S ‘MANK’: ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING
Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on December 3rd, 2020. Mank is a phenomenal piece of cinema, but it is not a very entertaining movie. What David Fincher has achieved is a sweeping parlor trick that satirizes the majesty of Hollywood’s … Read More
Ana Lily Amirpour’s ‘Ride It Out’ Belongs in a Time Capsule
Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on October 21st, 2020. During a 2017 interview with Berlinale Talents, 40-year-old writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch) described the year after she had graduated from UCLA as … Read More
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“If you’re going to spend all of your life working on something, it’s nice that it be difficult.” – Greta Gerwig (Excerpted from Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast, Episode 869.) IFB’s Quotations Page, General Index