Uh … 3 ½? — The Other Side of the Wind
The Introduction Now that we have it, what do we do with it? Thirteen months ago, The Other Side of the Wind was released to the public, just like that — […]
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Both Versions: The Grandmaster
Roughly five years in the making (delayed when, among other struggles, its star broke his arm), Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster premiered in both mainland China and Hong Kong in January 2013. […]
My Perspective (ahem) on Rashomon
“It’s all a lie. Tajomaru’s story and the woman’s. […] [The samurai’s] story was also lies.” These words are spoken by a liar. So it goes in Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa’s postwar […]
Patriotism With Both Eyes Open: The Manchurian Candidate
I hadn’t noticed this the first few times I’d watched the movie, but John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate both begins and ends with a discussion about the Medal of Honor. (Technically, […]
Both Versions: Touch of Evil
Briefly: The troubled history of Orson Welles in Hollywood came to an end during post-production on Touch of Evil. After shooting completed and Welles left town, Universal ordered re-shoots, without the […]
“Lights. Camera. ACTION!” — My 10 Favorite French New Wave Movies
The co-inventors of cinema were the Americans and the French. Today, for much of the world, Hollywood is the shining epicenter of moviemaking, but when it comes to serious film […]
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 […]
Some Links, Some Thoughts — and a Correction
No proper blog post this week, but I’ve written in a couple other places and felt like sharing the links. There’s a short review of Spike Jonze’s movie Her on my […]
Where Christians Can Find the Rainbow in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah
You’ve probably heard about the new movie Noah. It’s been a controversial subject among Christians since long before anyone had seen it, and now that it’s arrived in theaters, that controversy […]
Facebook Links #5
I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared on Facebook in August and September of this year. Cited below are excerpts that spell out the gist of […]
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