I was at Odd Obssession a few years back, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky told me he had a film he wanted…
Bressonmania
The Robert Bresson Retrospective is at the Film Forum right now. But it is going to other venues in the…
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 1
I first encountered Yuriy Tarnawsky‘s writing in 1998, when I stumbled across a copy of Three Blondes and Death (FC2,…
Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson
One of the keys to this book and Bresson himself is the fifth aphorism: “Metteur-en-scène, director. The point is not…
Eight is Enough
NOTE: This was written in the infancy of my knowledge about cinema. Surely, eight is not enough. John Ford, Carl…
Two-Lane Blacktop
After college, a friend and I went on a tear, spending our weekends watching everything we could find by Godard,…