I was at Odd Obssession a few years back, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky told me he had a film he wanted…
Feature Friday: “Little Murders” (1971)
Little Murders is one of the greatest films of the 1970s—nay, of all time!—and anyone who doesn’t watch it is…
Bressonmania
The Robert Bresson Retrospective is at the Film Forum right now. But it is going to other venues in the…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies—Extra: Ranking Woody Allen
My last movie talk with Jeremy (about Midnight in Paris) made me want to rank Woody Allen’s films. Jeremy of…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)
[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
[You click this link, you go back to the first installment, which found me and Jeremy unable to get service…
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.
Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room
He’s become a punchline here in the US, but that doesn’t make Jerry Lewis any less of a cinematic genius.…
What’s So New about New Wave?
I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming),…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…