Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, "Blood and Wine" with Jack Nicholson, "Geology: A Very Short Introduction." Lowest lows: "The…
Greatest Hits: Everett's "Erasure," Zweig's "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Code Inconnu." Lowest Lows: "S.W.A.T." (2003). Ouch.
During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also "Crime Wave" and "The Insider" and even "La…
"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…