There are two common complaints one usually has to endure from avid readers about film adaptations, and often film in general – that the cinema leaves nothing to the imagination and no room for the interior life. Books clearly do...
For certain Hollywood films from the 1940s-1960s, their genius cannot be easily identified in especially fine acting, direction, writing, or camerawork. They appear in every way ordinary to the surface. Yet there is an energy running through them that you...
One of the great pleasures returning to the TCM Classic Film Festival year after year has been acquainting myself with the early sound films of King Vidor. Not always widely distributed or even discussed, I was nevertheless blown away by...
In this episode, David and guest co-host Scott Nye are joined by Julie Sesnovich to discuss the movies they saw at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival.
Ingmar Bergman directed forty films between 1946 and 1982, when he announced his retirement (he’d break this with another three films for television and one theatrical, but what can you do). Across our fair city, twenty-six of those will be...
Note: This review originally ran as part of our AFI Fest 2017 coverage, when the movie had a different title. I nearly missed Claire Denis’s Bright Sunshine In at AFI Fest altogether, but even rushing to make a midday screening...
Noir isn’t just the genre trappings we’re constantly sold; long shadows and dangerous ladies and hardened men. It’s something that digs into the soul and the body and the way we try to live with and apart one another. It’s...
It’s become somewhat inevitable for American directors behind personal, low-key and -budget films to find a foothold in throwback genre cinema to get any kind of foothold at all. David Robert Mitchell followed his sweet teen film The Myth of...
It’s rarely a bad idea to begin a discussion of a film – particularly a French film, particularly an Arnaud Desplechin film – with a word from Godard. Writing in 1950, he posted, “At the cinema, we do not think,...
