My 25 Favorite Montages & Cross-cutting Sequences
What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]
What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]
Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Killers is an enticing but perplexing candidate for a feature film adaptation. It’s as spare a narrative as you’ll ever see, a simple chronicle of waiting. […]
The coolest thing I’ve learned this year to date comes from One-Man Band, the third volume of Simon Callow’s definitive Orson Welles biography. I finished reading it back in June, but […]
“Everything you hate.” There are so many avenues for writing about this film that it’s easy to become paralyzed trying to choose one. Its reputation precedes it, to put things […]
By now the analogy is irredeemably trite — the kind of comment that elucidates nothing yet sounds astute anyway. But here goes: Duck Soup is the Marx brothers’ Citizen Kane. I don’t […]
I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared to Facebook in April and May of this year. Cited below are excerpts that give a little more information […]
The man who made “the greatest movie of all time” — Orson Welles — and the man who made “the worst movie of all time” — Ed Wood — had […]
I’ve committed to reading all the way through Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) this year. As of my writing this, I’m about […]
Sight & Sound, Britain’s prestigious film magazine, oversees this most prestigious of film lists every ten years. Polling “critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles” from all over the […]
The shimmering, glowing stars in the cinema firmament have aligned of late, with plenty of high-profile Blu-ray releases in the last month. Among the most significant are those pictured above: […]