By Night With Torch & Spear
Joseph Cornell is best remembered for his work with assemblage, often manifesting these works in neat wooden boxes. Cornell’s fascination with the mundane every day objects of his pieces derive… Read more »
Joseph Cornell is best remembered for his work with assemblage, often manifesting these works in neat wooden boxes. Cornell’s fascination with the mundane every day objects of his pieces derive… Read more »
There has been a lot of discussion around Rivette’s films lately, a kind of renewed interest or mass discovery by a new generation. Lincoln Center recently hosted a parallel retrospective… Read more »
Recently I received as a gift ANDY WARHOL Polaroids 1958-1987, published by Taschen. It is a marvelous presentation of Warhol’s work, quite fascinating when one begins to compare these original… Read more »
Last Friday I attended, with my brother, a screening of Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958) at International House. What may appear to be an odd context to this screening, though… Read more »
Queer women are one of the most highly codified social demographics to have ever existed on film. In comparison to their male counterparts, the lesbian image is years behind in… Read more »
Who would have guessed that A Star Is Born (2018), remade for a third time, would connect with audiences today. Not that the story isn’t classic Hollywood “weepy” gold or… Read more »
Parker Posey is one of my favorite actresses working in film today. Her performances in even the most mundane and mediocre films are layered with character and in many cases… Read more »
Douglas Sirk’s style is unmistakable. In the last 70 some years his films have become synonymous with the America of the nuclear age. I have written before about how Sirk… Read more »
Lili is one of those anomalous films that was ostensibly made for children or at least young adults, like The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr.T (1953), during the latter days of… Read more »
It’s interesting to consider how the depiction of memory has changed since the 19th century. Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life Of Charlotte Bronte, James Boswell’s The Life Of Samuel Johnson and… Read more »