I had actually never seen Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 classic rendition of Poe to the screen. Starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, it is one of the key horror films.
Do you like your brilliant film nearly plot-free, elliptical, beautifully shot, and yet amazingly touching? I don't know to what extent anyone watches Tarkovsky anymore. It's hard to imagine a.
A lot of the all-time great films are pretty problematic--Birth of a Nation, The Searchers, Manhattan, we could go on. To say the least, values change. How do we deal.
When The Fog of War came out, I remember people saying Errol Morris was way too easy on Robert McNamara. But no, I don't think that's right. I didn't then.
I'm sitting here watching a Sunday Night Football game. And it's Thanksgiving week. This means only one thing--tonight's film is the legendary 2002 Monday Night game with the Eagles blowing.
I did not get my life together enough this week to finish my music notes post, so that is going to wait til next week and be extra long. But.
Tonight's film is an exceedingly rare one. Rising Tones Cross is a German documentary from 1985 about the New York avant-garde jazz scene. Directed by Ebba Jahn, it features some.
I'm reading Emily Remus' 2019 book A Shoppers' Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown. One of the chapters discusses the late 19th.
