(It goes without saying that this is another one of those posts.) Poor self-defeating Pete, trying his best to become the very Draper whose misery's invisible to him. Remember when Pete had hope, and director John Slattery hammered the possibility of it home via reverse shots? How...
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Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film.
A little French film from circa 1907 to help you have the most pleasant dreams this evening. No nightmares at all to be had tonight. Nope. None.
One of the last great postwar European actors has passed. Erland Josephson, star of many of Ingmar Bergman's and Andrei Tarkovsky's later works, died at the age of 88. While partial to Bergman overall, and especially to Scenes from a Marriage, Josephson's first lead role...
A little morning deliciousness for you, from 1950 and via the American Gas Association. America's finest food from America's finest era of cooking.
(This be another one of those posts in which I “[feign] some kind of cultural superiority … even though [my] opinions and tastes are largely shite of the first water [that force.
(Another one of those now-more-conveniently-located posts, only significantly longer than usual because I'm squeezing three episodes into one three hour course. So apologies for the length in advance.) One of the core assumptions of the way I teach visual rhetoric is that directors often know more...
Kim Morgan has a list up of the top 10 old movies she saw for the first time in 2011. It's an interesting list. The only one I've seen is.
The great Ben Gazzara has passed. He had so many excellent roles over the years. Of course, for my generation, one particular role as a money-lending pornographer stands out.
Probably the greatest Greek filmmaker ever has died, killed by a motorcycle on the set of his film-in-progress. Angelopoulos received a good bit of publicity in the U.S. during the mid 90s, which is when I began to watch film. Landscape in the Mist is...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to place restrictions on documentaries up for the award. Any documentary must be reviewed in the New York Times or.
Last night, I watched the Lee Atwater documentary, Boogie Man. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it very highly. I always knew Atwater was an awful human being, but.