It has been quite a few months for Gertrude Stein. Since Kathy Bates’ appearance as her in Woody Allen’s Midnight…
Woody Allen Picks Five Favorite Books
At The Browser. He also comments on each choice, which is what makes the list worth reading. Since folks here…
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…
Art as Inheritance, part 3: Reverse Chronology
I’ve been doing some research into reverse chronology (for the follow-up to my post “From ‘Doom House’ to ‘Mood House’”),…
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…
Announcing a New Big Other Series: “A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies”
In two days, I’ll be posting the first installment of a new ongoing series at Big Other: conversations I’ve had…
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.
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…
My Favorite New Movies of 2009
[Update: 2010 is here] [and 2011 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m…