The End of Cinema

You, the Living - I've tried a few times in the week since I saw this Roy Andersson film to describe what it's about and have found...

Love in the Afternoon - This is, apparently, a lot of people's favorite of the Moral Tales , but I think I liked it the least. Part of...

Claire's Knee - The fifth of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales , it's a kind of mellow version of Dangerous Liaisons . Jean-Claude...

Suzanne's Career - The second of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales , and much darker in tone than The Bakery Girl of Monceau. It feels...

An Education - I'd expect that a film about a young girl in 1962 who's so infatuated with the life of the Parisian intellectual (jaz...

It's a Gift - WC Fields as a henpecked grocer who decides to buy an orange grove and move his family to California. As a movie, it...

This is an index of my Top Films of All-Time lists. Every year around Labor Day I make a new one. My Top 150 Films  - 2008 My Top 250 Fil...

This is a master index of my coverage of the various film festivals I've attended over the years. The Vancouver International Film Fes...

This is an index of a bunch of things I did a long time ago. Some of it is worth reading, but it's mostly just lists and some very shor...

This is an index of the Best of the Decade lists I made between 2008 and 2009. Movies of the 10s & 20s   Aug 10, 2009 Movies of the 3...

Over at the Metro Classics website, Mike and I wrote about our combined Top 72 films of the decade, check it out. Here's my personal T...

A Christmas Tale - My second Arnauld Desplechin film in a week, and I think I preferred the other ( Kings and Queen ), though I did like th...