Easily one of the best films of the past seven years, by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Apichatapong Weerasethakul.…
We would gladly have repainted the trees and the sky
Peter Greenway’s film A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) [1985] begins with a swan crashing into a car, killing…
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…
#AuthorFail 2: Sean Beaudoin
Welcome to #AuthorFail (want to get in on this thing? Check here for guidelines.) This week’s installment (cue old-timey radio-play…
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…
Schrödinger’s Laura
I had a stray thought recently about Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 noir Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel…
The family showroom
Guy Ben Ner’s excellent video Stealing Beauty (2007, about 18 minutes) was featured in an architecture talk that my husband…