Sleepless In Seattle
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub once said “there is no such thing as film history”. Films only really exist as we watch them, as we play back the footage. If there is… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Half Nelson
I decided to repost this short review after screening this film in my class. This piece originally appeared in 2012. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have been collaborating on films… Read more »
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Some years ago I bought my first DVD from Movies Unlimited in Northeast Philadelphia. Last summer I had the good fortune to see that same film on the big screen… Read more »
The Saragossa Manuscript
There are as many variations upon narrative form as there are filmmakers. Few have been able to construct films that sustain a narrative whose story arcs and plot points are… Read more »
Kamikaze ’89
Wolf Gremm’s masterful ode to Rainer Werner Fassbinder showed just once on June 8th at International House as part of a new national re-release of a restored print. Despite my… Read more »
Air Force One
This piece was written in 2015 while Donald Trump was still on the campaign trail. When Bonnie Tyler recorded Holding Out For A Hero for the film Footloose in 1984… Read more »
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 »
Histoire de Marie et Julien
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 »
Basquiat
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 »
Mon Oncle
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 »
