Who called Charles Hardin Holly "Buddy"? Perhaps these were his two older brothers, in whose antics Charlie always sought to participate on an equal footing. The whole family, with the exception of their father, who…
Patsy & Loretta (2019): An ode to the…
Patsy and Loretta (2019) is a biopic about the friendship of two women, country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. The film was shot for the Lifetime TV channel by director Callie Khouri, who at…
Elvis: how the horror master made a movie…
I prefer not to watch biographical films about Elvis. For many reasons, but the most important of them is that the life of such a famous person as Presley, willy-nilly, becomes shrouded in all sorts…
The World’s FastestIndian, a film biography of Bert…
One of the best biographical films in my memory is definitely The World's Fastest Indian, a somewhat dramatized biography of the inventor and racer from New Zealand, Bert Munro, who accelerated his 1920 Indian Scout…
I Saw The Light, a worthy biopic about…
Several films have been made about Hank Williams until recently, including Your Cheatin' Heart (1964) and Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980). Was a new biopic really needed? I think biopic films of…
Greased Lightning (1977) – the best NASCAR movie…
I present to you the first film for which I translated subtitles into Russian, and it is perhaps the best among them so far: Greased Lightning 1977. The film is based on the biography of…