I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
On Sept. 1, TCM launched a 14-week series, Women Make Film: A road trip through 100 films across 44 countries and 12 decades of cinema. One of the delights of TCM’s line-up is how certain movies bump up against each … Continue reading Women Make Film: Jacqueline Audry and Chantal Akerman
Few filmmakers are as overlooked as Chantal Akerman. Her Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the cinema’s Ulysses—everyone knows about it, knows it to be a great work of art, claims to have seen it, but hasn’t. … Continue reading NO HOME MOVIE
In movies, what’s supposed to be an effective image, an important image, are crimes, car chases, etc. Not a woman, shown from the back, doing dishes. But that that is on the same level as the murder, in fact, I … Continue reading Born On This Day — June 6, 1950
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