Probably the main reason that Hamlet has been such a popular subject for cinema from its very beginning — besides representing a grasp for artistic legitimacy in those early days, and […]
Shakespearean cinema, like many of the other subjects I’ve approached in my annual film retrospectives, is something in which I’ve long wanted to become more fluent. There are boundless avenues […]
A straight stretch of train tracks extend into oblivion, their iron rumbling with a whispered threat. In the gentle town nearby, two solemn and innocent ceremonies take place at the […]
Among the current decade’s crop of movie neo-musicals, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land stands apart for tapping into traditions uniquely native to film. That is to say, it’s a song-and-dance extravaganza […]
It must be a frightening concept to men—this idea of women having a special bond, of women containing multitudes… Men, spellbound by the secrets shared between women, can’t help but […]
For the final entry in my “Both Versions” blog series, I’ll be breaking one of my major rules. For every preceding film, the competing versions were each released theatrically at […]
Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard presented their visions of sclerotic authoritarianism just a few years apart, with the American director entering the final phase of his filmmaking career and the […]
The New Hollywood, it was called. Inspired by similar movements in Europe, a new generation of filmmakers took advantage of the faltering studio system to produce personal, vital, politically relevant […]
Back in the summer of 2010, I saw my thousandth movie. It had taken more than twenty-two years. At some point in the next couple months, I’ll double that. In […]
This double feature idea makes for a nice challenge, because while the two films share many superficial similarities, I love one of them and don’t particularly care for the other. […]
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