I’ve already happily linked to online copies of two Elaine May films on Feature Friday—The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and A…
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,…
Feature Friday: “Mostly Martha” (2001)
So I haven’t seen Mostly Martha since it came out, and I’ll freely admit that on paper, it looks god-awful.…
Bressonmania
The Robert Bresson Retrospective is at the Film Forum right now. But it is going to other venues in the…
In Memory of Raúl Ruiz (a guest post by Jeremy M. Davies)
These are the days that try cinephiles’ souls, and I suppose one may give one’s penchant for hyperbole a little…
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, 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…
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how…