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Letter to a Young Cinephile 22 Jun 2011 | 02:17 pm
Dear Young Cinephile, Go on the needle. It will get you to where you're going much faster, and the moments of despair will be fewer and farther between. Go thou and sin no more, you luckless so-and-...
A Confession 18 Mar 2011 | 11:31 am
I like movies that have nothing for everyone.
Some Remarks On . . .The David Lynch Liquidation Sale 24 Nov 2009 | 08:23 am
Watching David Lynch stuff a pair of women's panties into his mouth got me to thinking. Okay, maybe I should back up for a second. Yesterday, someone forwarded to me via email a demented YouTube vid...
Notepad Recovery: Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder; 1964) 20 Oct 2009 | 02:00 am
What follows is a series of excerpts from what I freely confess is a still-unfinished article on Billy Wilder's Kiss Me Stupid. That's right. Excerpts. This is not the final result; it's barely even c...
One Observation on Inglourious Basterds 28 Aug 2009 | 03:14 am
Having seen Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds just last evening, I scarcely know what to say. It's a cataclysm of a movie; the kind of blistering, near incantatory work no other medium is remot...
Personal Indulgence 6 Aug 2009 | 01:29 am
Might I be permitted to take up a moment of your time for something you may very well think dubious? I am, for the most part, convinced that my motive for the following is not to boast, not to place b...
Something to Ponder 6 Aug 2009 | 01:20 am
If it had accomplished nothing else, David Fincher's Zodiac would be invaluable simply for reminding those who may have forgotten it (or who may never have known) the lost beauty of AM radio sound, dr...
Old Stuff: Two Obits from Two Years Ago 1 Aug 2009 | 01:51 am
Two years ago, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni passed away within twenty-four hours of one another. What follows are two Obit entries I wrote for my other blog a few days thereafter. They ar...
My Judicious Answers to . . .PROFESSOR SEVERUS SNAPE’S SORCERER-TASTIC, MUGGALICIOUS MID-SUMMER MOVIE QUIZ 28 Jul 2009 | 04:11 pm
I've always wanted to participate in one of the periodic quizzes set before them what's in the film blogosphere by Dennis Cozzalio, author of one of the great blogs in this realm, Sergio Leone and the...
Something to Ponder . . . 6 Jul 2009 | 12:54 pm
Just occurred to me while re-watching Inland Empire (had to hit the Pause button and everything): Where would David Lynch be without Grace Zabriskie's cheekbones? We now return you to 'Inmate Umpire...
