Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Wednesday, July 8 2009
Moby: Wait for Me
It sounds a lot like Play again, sure, but ten years older, wiser, and more exhausted in the best possible way.
Monday, October 13 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1
Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.
Monday, May 12 2008
The David Lynch Dilemma
David Lynch is very much like God. I watch his movies the way I look at the creation of the world: most of the time I can’t claim to discern what’s going on, but someone seems to have gone to a great deal of trouble.
Tuesday, January 22 2008
The Donovan Concert: Live in Los Angeles
The concert acquires an unwavering sense of honesty and personal investment on Donovan’s part, and he never comes off as pretentious or ironic.
Monday, June 4 2007
The Strange World of David Lynch by Eric G. Wilson
You read it right, folks: Wilson has written one of that film's most astute descriptions without seeing a single frame.
