Monthly Archive: January 2014
From the Mouth of
Is there anything more boring than listening to a director talk about a movie he or she made and what they were trying to convey in it? Not really. …
On Cinema
Unless we’re watching a motion picture at the movie theater or enjoying one at home with a surround speaker system, we can forget the role sound plays in the …
Classics & Well Aged
In Imogen Sara Smith’s “World Weary” article regarding Noir City, San Francisco’s annual film noir festival, she concludes an overview of some of the festival’s motion pictures (and a …
Movie News
You shoot a video ad for a Superbowl commercial contest, and your video is voted to run during the hallowed Sunday TV event. Then you’re working on “Avengers 2” …
Just Because
Sample a couple of photos from behind the scenes on Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” provided by Film.com, because Anderson’s motion picture is underrated and you want to revisit …
From the Mouth of
Jean Cocteau, the father of cinematography (the term he preferred to “cinema”), hoped the future of motion pictures would become more creative, more personal, as the mechanic means of …
Classics & Well Aged
In spite of questions regarding the quality of its transfer, I suppose it’s always a good thing to have more Andrei Tarkovsky with Kino Classics’ release this week of a …
TV Reviews
Let’s face it. It was only a matter of time before BBC’s immensely popular “Sherlock” exceeded splashes of self-aware humor to go skinny dipping in self-indulgence. With last Sunday’s …
Intermission
I have been enjoying a new anthology picked up recently that features one of my favorite French poets, Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960). The book, a New York Review Book/Poets anthology …
Movie Reviews
Martin Scorsese’s filmography has been poorly colored as one taken up with violence ever since his early pictures like “Mean Streets,” the impression “cemented” after the final climax and …