The Summer 2011 issue of Requited is now online. It features: fiction by Josh Collins, Jess Upshaw Glass, Suzanne Scanlon,…
I know I prefer auto ads when they swipe from Antonioni films
From Yahoo Mail: Cf. Antonioni’s 1975 masterpiece The Passenger: (Notice how this clip’s presented by Audi? Even horrible corporations love…
In Memory of Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider, the female lead in two of my all-time favorite films, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) and…
More on Inception: Shot Economy and 1 + 1 = 1
Some good questions came up in the comments section of my lengthy Inception critique (“Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception“), and…
Two-Lane Blacktop
After college, a friend and I went on a tear, spending our weekends watching everything we could find by Godard,…
A Review of the Relatively New Movie Dogtooth (Kynodontas)
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Giorgos Lanthimos‘s third feature-length film, Dogtooth (Kynodontas, 2009), which is the kind…
Politics are Personal
July 30, 2007 Morning: Bush lied, Bergman died. Evening: Bush lied, Antonioni died.
Women and Men
Kathryn Bigelow and her film The Hurt Locker are on tap to win Oscars and make history for becoming…
Brevity, Part 3: Long Takes Continued (well, they’re long)
While writing my previous post, I grew aware that I wasn’t mentioning any women filmmakers. So I’d like to add…
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…