Little Murders

Actor Alan Arkin has an impressive film directorial debut with Little Murders, Jules Feiffer's bitter and moving satire (originally produced as an off-Broadway play). Elliot Gould (who also co-produced the film) plays Alfred Chamberlain -- a one time successful photographer who is now down on his ...more

Little Murders is not a movie that you can sit back and just let roll over you. An intensely black portrait of paranoid, unsettling urban life in the late '60s and early '70s, Murders is a cult film the sensibilities of which will definitely not appeal to everyone. It's a satire, but not a comfortable one; it doesn't give you many moments when you can let your breath out and relax, and even those few it does parcel out are tinged with the inevitable feeling of a bubble about to burst. This ...more