Above: Steve McQueen (left) directs Michael Fassbender's performance as Bobby Sands. As I wrote in my 2008 year in review piece here on The Auteurs, Steve McQueen's Hunger is one of the best films that
Ozu’s Late Spring has been on my mind again lately after seeing Claire Denis’s sublime reimagining 35 rhums…
My Struggle Are some films best forgotten? The newly appointed Duke of Württemberg relaxes the laws preventing Jews from entering his city, so that he can borrow from moneylender Suss Oppenheimer
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
I see that at least one blog—not one specifically about movies—has been conducting some poll about the "Worst Movie Ever," or some such, and has, in so doing, engendered a lot of not-quite-argument in
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
Post-war, movies take notice—not for the first time, or last, but with the conviction that bearing witness can be an assault—of crowds and the weight of history. The two are intertwined, everyday concerns
Above: The Bride of Glomdale (1926). Image courtesy of The Danish Film Institute/Stills & Posters Archive. Almost all early Carl Th. Dreyer films show life to be one big ceremony, each generation
The Fearless Vampire Colours When Emma Thompson's dad, Eric, was given the job of translating a French kids' show for the BBC, he projected the films, without sound, on his kitchen door and made up
Above: Kinuyo Tanaka (left) letting the worries of the world creep into her vacation in Ornamental Hairpin. Image Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. The most famous of the Japanese masters
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in
The immaculate dissolve above occurs very near the end of Sirk's 1958 masterpiece, his penultimate Hollywood film. The film's hero, Ernst Graeber (John Gavin), a German soldier who we first see as part