The Problem of Johnny
DIRECTOR: MIKE LEIGH/1993
Take the image of a scruffy, dour figure dressed in a black trenchcoat standing ruefully in the trash-strewn th...
The Un-Romanticized Era of Depression Anti-Nostalgia
DIRECTED BY WALTER HILL/1975
A freight train comes whistling ’round the bend carrying, along with its sl...
An Historical Perspective
DIRECTOR: Robert Bresson/French/1956
The original trailer announcing the 1956 release of Robert Bresson’s fourth film, A Man Escap...
A Classical View of Contemporary Romance
DIRECTOR: Eric Rohmer/French/1992
In everyday life we are perhaps more prone to accept, unthinkingly, the happensta...
A French Director's Vision of America
DIRECTOR; Jean-Pierre Melville/French/1959
“Whenever Americans are looking for a man, they keep three words in mind… ‘...
Fleeting Time in the Hands of its Fairy Tale Creators
DIRECTOR; Jean Cocteau/French/1946
“I wonder. I ask myself whether or not these exhausting days may not b...
A New Year's Nightmare!
DIRECTOR: Victor Victor Sjöström/Swedish/1921
A short write-up today for New Year’s, courtesy of a haunted New Year’s long-since pas...
A Thanksgiving Special!
DIRECTOR: Woody Allen/1986
“You don’t deserve Cole Porter. You should stay with those groups that look like they’re going to stab th...
An Election Day 'Choice'!
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD/1958
“Skeffington!/Skeffington!/Cast your vote for Skeffington!”
Wisconsin’s own Spencer Tracy IS “Frank Skeff...
A Slightly Obsessed Halloween Special!
The days shorten, the shadows of night creep ever earlier, and the first chill is felt on the evening breeze. The leaves ...
