Above: Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg take a break at Adventureland. I thought of the new wave of Taiwanese films that began in the 1980s and peaked around the time of Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Puppetmaster
José Luis Guerin’s ode to voyeurism, In the City of Sylvia, opened in the UK last month with this perfectly evocative poster…
The Brooklyn Academy of Music ran 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 with the
The Interrogation (Bugajski, 1982): two shots of Krystyna Janda as a political prisoner, which remind me of Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc.
"I should rub-a-dub!" The late work of Stanley Donen presents difficulties. The Little Prince (1973) strikes me as a kind of masterpiece, just not a very good one. As a children's film, it's wasted
Why windows? (Maybe there aren’t that many.) The Sun Shines Bright (1953), like so many John Ford movies, takes place in a small town; but while most of Ford’s towns are makeshift civilizations
Fritz Lang's 1955 Moonfleet might seem the least Langian of his films, at least to judge by a synopsis of its scenario. A young orphaned boy seeks out "a friend," commended to him by his late mother
Gina (Lilli Palmer) in Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946). Cinematography by Sol Polito.
Above: Torn Space's production of Area (2008). Photo: Lukia Costello. Over the last couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a theatre that seeks to go "beyond drama." This post-dramatic theatre
Dario Argento avows that Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971) is one of his least artistically successful films, but recently viewing it in a restored print on the big screen at MoMA’s Sixth International Festival
Though advance word on Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience was lukewarm after its sneak rough cut preview at Sundance…
Above: William (Red West) and Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo. It’s one of those strange accidents of moviegoing: the Landmark Century Center, one of two cinemas in the