I wanted to offer some comments on Jacques Tourneur's masterpiece, "Nightfall," which I recently resaw at Doc Films in Chicago. It seems to me to be easily...
It's a shame I wasn't able to make it to that screening. Thus far I haven't really been able to get into Tourneur--possibly because I haven't seen anything of...
Matt, thanks for your response, which I've been thinking about for a bit. Unfortunately, I don't remember that moment in "L'Argent," which I have not seen in a...
I have long wanted to post a few comments on Zhang Ke Jia's "Still Life" (Sanxia haoren) which recently played in Chicago. I had seen two earlier films of his,...
I had surmised that you might like this one better than the others. Even though "Platform" is my favorite, "Still Life", which was the first I saw always...
(This is also posted on my blog, but I'd like to stimulate some discussion so that I'm not just talking to myself!) Hitherto I have seen only the one Andre De...
Edo, Thanks for some terrific comments on this tremendously great film, long a particular favorite of mine. I think you're largely right about the entrances. I...
Fred, Over the past two days since I posted this on Film Art, I've been editing the same entry on my blog. So for some elaboration and clarification of my...
I should add that when I say "spiritual" I do not at all mean to suggest that there is a sense of the spiritual realm in the world of the film. I refer more to...
Thanks to Doc Film at the University of Chicago for showing Hou Hsiao-Hsien's great great "Millennium Mambo." Something I have been reminded of in recent...
