The End of Cinema

This week we finally recorded the Johnnie To They Shot Pictures episode, you can read about it, download and listen by following the link...

The latest episode of They Shot Pictures, wherein we discuss Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To is now available over at the website , or on ...

We're coming down the the end of what has been six weeks or so of Johnnie To movies to the exclusion of almost everything else. In b...

In the midst of a lengthy binge on Johnnie To movies, preparing for a They Shot Pictures episode we hope to record this weeken...

All 41 of the films by Johnnie To and/or Wai Ka-fai that I've seen, by Whimsicality Score over time. Whimsicality Score is how whimsic...

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...