My Favorite Movies: The Empire Strikes Back
When I was young, I assumed the striking back of the title referred to the climax — Han Solo’s capture and Luke Skywalker’s defeat in a duel with Darth Vader. […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Double Feature: Shadow of a Doubt and Stoker
Tolstoy’s most famous sentence asserts that every unhappy family is unique. That may be true, technically, but there’s plenty of room for eerie similarities. I present the Newtons and the […]
Foundational Images
It’s been a while since I’ve sung the praises of the moviegoing experience on this blog. In part that’s because I don’t want to be a hypocrite. Well over ninety […]
Both Versions: The Gold Rush
(This is the first post in a new bimonthly series.) Around the time that the home video era got started, the process of adding color to old black-and-white movies became […]
Geppetto's Clocks 