"The Limey" is essentially a father-daughter story of a very strange sort, in at least two discrete dimensions. Masterful in…
Not so recently acquired: Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart and The Maid of Orleans. Two Historical Plays in One Volume!
The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen. The lownotes: The Matrix (1999) and its progency,…
David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules," Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," Ida Lupino in "Women's Prison." Is it too late to…
The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn't seen, as well as David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules"
Elsewhere Haneke has described some of his films as anti-narrative. Is it true of "71 Fragments of a Chronology of…
The televisual void has sucked away all vestiges of reality from lived experience: Benny makes videos to capture what is…
"The Seventh Continent" is Australia, where Georges, Anna, and Eva are going to live, right after they annihilate all vestiges…
Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
On the second series edition of the Arden Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", both this particular 1991 printing as well as…