Not Just Movies

There is a moment in Paul Mazursky's fitfully remarkable An Unmarried Woman wherein the protagonist, Erica, speaks to a friend who suff...

At the time of its release, Obsession was by some degree the most refined of Brian De Palma's films, an ironic twist given how it is pe...

Americans have an unfortunate tendency to disregard history. That is not to say that the citizens of other countries are uniformly scholars,...

The Dziga Vertov Group years, both Godard's most contested and largely ignored, take after the anonymity of the collective's ethos b...

Over a half-century removed from the release of one of the landmarks of art cinema, Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City no longer look...

[This post written for the John Huston Blog-A-Thon at Icebox Movies ] When Adam Zanzie over at Icebox Movies commissioned his blogathon for ...

By most accounts, Billy Wilder became a director not so much because he was interested in the visual craft of filmmaking but because he felt...