My Favorite Movies: My Fair Lady
A recurring image in George Cukor’s 1964 film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady shows a crowd of splendidly dressed aristocrats in procession. The camera lingers on […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Double Feature Double Feature: Millennial Masculine Misery Mambo
We’re pulling an all-nighter this time — four movies, all of which turn fifteen this year. Their thematic similarities make them flow together beautifully, and viewed in a certain order, […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Gran Torino
The Introduction Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It happened five and a half years ago — the one and only time I sneaked into a movie theater. I […]
5 Poems by Langston Hughes
To conclude my little series of posts about American poets, I selected Langston Hughes, one of the outstanding writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes borrowed from blues and jazz music […]
Announcing My Next Movie Retrospective: The French New Wave
In the 1950s, a cadre of critics associated with the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma decided that their ideas about movies as an art form were strong enough to put […]
Geppetto's Clocks 