OK, so don’t get your hopes up; this is a pretty poor copy of Withnail & I. I mean, you…
Feature Friday: “Syndromes and a Century” (2006)
Easily one of the best films of the past seven years, by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Apichatapong Weerasethakul.…
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…
Feature Friday: “Wittgenstein” (1993)
Most of this site’s readers are no doubt busy with AWP, but I’ll still throw up a film to watch.…
Feature Friday: “Sleuth” (1972)
John recently stripped this site of its “Features” tab, where I was steadily and secretly stockpiling links to feature films…
Billy Wilder on “The Lubitsch Touch”
Besides being totally charming, the above clip’s worth watching for its lesson in narrative economy. (I just showed my girlfriend…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a…
Mark Rappaport’s Blind Dates
Today marks the start of Anthology Film Archive’s four-day retrospective of Mark Rappaport, the visionary director behind two of my…
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would…
How Many Cinemas Are There?
[Update 30 Jan 11: I’ve since written a follow-up to this post: “Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?”] “The…