I was trying to think of the most perfect Thanksgiving Holiday film. While peeling my hundredth potato, I remembered Jeanne…
Feature Friday: “Je, tu, il, elle” (1976)
Chantal Akerman is probably best-known for her 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, which is definitely required viewing. But all of her…
Feature Friday: “Mikey and Nicky” (1976)
I’ve already happily linked to online copies of two Elaine May films on Feature Friday—The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and A…
Feature Friday: “Sans soleil” (1983)
[Note: Some number of previous Feature Friday films—7/20, I think—have since disappeared from YouTube. Such is the nature of gray…
Feature Friday: “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (1968)
Don’t let the odd title put you off! It’s just some funny word meaning how things can become interconnected. Cinematically,…
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of…