Watch Salesman, a 1969 Documentary About Traveling Bible Salesmen by the...
Tagged: Albert, Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, Direct Cinema, Documentary, Documentary film, full film, Movies, Salesman (film)
View ArticleSee Wise Blood, John Houston’s Adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Novel
Tagged: Film, Flannery O'Connor, full film, John Houston, Movies, Wise Blood
View ArticleBest/Worst Movie Titles of 2013
A brief disclaimer: I’ve never worked in feature film marketing, nor do I plan to. I don’t pretend to speak from any expertise here. I experience a gut-level reaction to words, an almost physical...
View ArticleNoah Baumbach and Peter Bogdanovich on Shooting Frances Ha in Black and White
Tagged: Black and White film, Film, Frances Ha, Movies, Noah Baumbach, Peter Bogdanovich
View ArticleFilm Posters by Polish Artist Leszek Żebrowski
(More at Żebrowski’s site) Tagged: Art, Film, Film poster, Leszek Zebrowski, Movie Posters, Movies, Polish Film Posters
View ArticleRIP Harold Ramis
RIP Harold Ramis, 1944-2014 Ghostbusters, Back to School, Stripes, Groundhog Day, Meatballs, SCTV—I’m one of the few people that actually really digs Multiplicity. Hell, I even saw Year One in the...
View ArticleRIP Gordon Willis
RIP Gordon Willis, 1931-2014 Tagged: Cinema, cinematography, Film, Godfather, Gordon Willis, Movies, RIP
View ArticleDavid Cronenberg, John Carpenter and John Landis in a 1982 Roundtable Discussion
Tagged: Cinema, David Cronenberg, Film, Interview, John Carpenter, John Landis, Movies
View Article“On that same evening I left Germany and never returned”| Fritz Lang on...
Tagged: Films, Fritz Lang, Joseph Goebbels, Movies, Nazis
View ArticleTotoro Jack O’ Lantern Stencil
Do you still need an idea for a jack o’ lantern? Are you a fan of Hayao Miyazaki films? Even the really sweet and gentle ones, like Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro? And, are you, like, totally skilled at...
View Article25 21st-century films missing from that New York Times list
Have you seen that New York Times list of “The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century” that Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott put together? I haven’t seen about half of the films on the list, but there are...
View ArticleLady Bird (Summer Film Log)
In her essay “Place in Fiction,” Eudora Welty wrote that “Place in fiction is the named, identified, concrete, exact and exacting, and therefore credible, gathering spot of all that has been felt, is...
View Article19 annotations on an old review of Blade Runner 2049 (Summer Film Log)
I recently rewatched Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017) on a large television screen via a streaming service, breaking the viewing of this nearly three-hour long film into two nights. I...
View ArticleBlog about a list of films included in Antoine Volodine’s short story “The...
Antoine Volodine’s short story “The Theory of Image According to Maria Three-Thirteen” is collected in Writers, a book available in English translation by Katina Rogers from Dalkey Archive Press....
View ArticleMy Oscars: I give meaningless awards to films that I had never seen before 2020
This morning in my Twitter feed I saw that the 93rd Academy Awards will happen tonight. I realized that I could not name a single movie that was likely up for an award. Like many people who love films,...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....