Look: I read the Bible when I was ten, the whole thing. I don’t remember much. The reading was…
Feature Friday: “Celine and Julie Go Boating” (1974)
What a surprise to find this up at YouTube! Although less and less surprises me these days. How to describe…
Everybody’s coming from the Winter Vacation
Winter Vacation (2010), the third film by writer-director Li Hongqi, uses long takes and static shots the way The Great…
Brian Allen Carr’s Short Bus and Flannery O’Connor’s “Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”
Brian Allen Carr’s collection of stories, Short Bus (Texas Review Press), is dedicated to the memory of William Patrick Carr…
The Overlook Hotel – the best resource for The Shining
The Overlook Hotel is simply the best site about The Shining on the internet. There are dozens of never before…
“Andrei Tarkovsky’s Poetic Cinema” by Matt Turner
As an artist limited by his circumstance in the warring, emaciated USSR throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, Andrei Tarkovsky…
Alex P. Keaton, 2012
When I was a kid watching Family Ties, Alex P. Keaton was my hero. I wanted to be Alex when…