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
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
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;
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
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
The thing, itself: I bow to no one in my admiration for the wit and persipicacity of the film critic Dennis Lim, but I have to admit that every now and then he shows a tendency—one might call it "monklike
The Warner Home Video restoration of David Lean's 1965 epic Doctor Zhivago is a thrill to behold in the high-definition Blu-ray format. So much so that watching it, one is apt to forget or at least ignore
All The Critics Love You In [Name Of European City Here]: "It is just a little bit weird that if I appear in Europe, anywhere, and I go often—to teach, to festivals, when and where there are retrospectives
It's Not A Great Sign When...: ...you announce your revered film festival's lineup and pretty much the first thing everybody on the receiving end says is, "Yeah, but what about this one?..." And this
"I Dunno, It Just Sorta Screams 'TV' To Me...": The title of this post is not a direct quote, but it does sum up the sentiments of a lot of folks who want to express their reluctance to see...or to pay
A Brief History Of Big F**king Scorpions In Cinema: "As someone who saw the original Clash when it was released, I am jazzed for the new one. You can't go wrong with big f**kings scorpions." So wrote
But The Original's Still The Greatest: I'm not gonna tell any tales out of school, but I doubt that either A.O. Scott or Michael Phillips will balk if I say I have every confidence that they weren't