Sometimes I wonder whether I'm prone to psychic flashes, or if I just have a selectively superb memory of whose powers I'm somehow unaware. For instance. The other night, I was sitting at home, doing
I Maintain That Chaos Is The Future And Beyond It Is Freedom. Confusion Is Next And After That Is An Inconvenient Truth: I know my editor probably isn't going to like this, but current events absolutely
Cesare Pavese's 1949 short novel, Among Women Only, is a queasy first-person narrative about memory and loss and social hierarchies and futility. I call it queasy because its narrator, Clelia, a fashionista
Of all the home video outfits doing business in the United States that have a continuing investment in repertory cinema, or, as a certain segment of the market might refer to such fare, "old movies
Y Chicks R Dumb: So more than one or two culture vultures, most of them female, have glommed on to the fact that a lot of the more vehement reactions to Sex and the City 2 are misogynist and
While it could be said that among the many, many things destroyed by Adolph Hitler and Nazism, German cinema was one of them, that doesn't mean that German filmmaking ended with the Nazi regime, for
The Perils of Specificity, and Vice Versa; or, how to get your own Two-Minute Hate session at Big Hollywood: Our discourse these days is such that having a morally correct position isn't nearly enough;
Classic actors don't always act in classic films. That's a relatively unarguable cinematic truism. We all know that, indeed, they sometimes act, quite frequently, in pretty terrible films. One need not
Film Against Itself: William Wellman's 1933 Wild Boys of the Road goes to great pains, in its opening quarter, to establish that its titular hellions are in fact conventionally good kids at heart. They
I really hope there are no major changes of management at the British Film Institute. Like, ever. It's not because I have a long-standing respect for that oft-august body (although I do, I really do
Remember kids, it's MUBI, not "Mooby." We are very glad to be part of the evolution of this site...and glad that our jefe Efe has a good sense of humor. Topics will take a bit of a rest this week
Anthology Film Archives in New York City begins a three-day engagement of a new 35mm print of Peter Watkins' 1970 Punishment Park on Friday, May 14. It should be noted that the screen caps illustrating