The End of Cinema

It's been years since I answered one of Dennis Cozzalio's quizzes at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, but here we go with ...

This week I wrote a thing on auteurism and created a bunch of They Shot Pictures -related lists in Letterboxd, ones for the directors we...

"You are at least watching here a filmmaker with a vision, with a style, making bold choices. I'd rather watch that any day of t...

I'll take any excuse to post "Dancing in the Dark", from The Band Wagon , and here it is Cyd Charisse's birthday. It...

Johnnie To's first crime movie and his fifth feature, following a period action film made eight years earlier ( The Enigmatic Case , ...

They Shot Pictures research continued this week, as I watched a half dozen more Johnnie To and/or Wai Ka-fai movies. I've a list of ...

Maybe this is just one of the many strange things about me, but I happen to think that every Romanian film I've ever seen is a hilari...

These are the 1994 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best in that year in film. Awards for many o...