Certain shots linger in the mind for reasons that are unquantifiable, unexplainable. For some reason this image of a casino at dusk, repeated, with slight variations, at a number of points in Alain
Jean Epstein on happy endings.
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
Our detail is a single shot done in a long-take from Rossellini’s 1959 film set in Genor during World War II.
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