Not so recently acquired: Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart and The Maid of Orleans. Two Historical Plays in One Volume!
"The Limey" is essentially a father-daughter story of a very strange sort, in at least…
The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen. The lownotes: The…
David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules," Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," Ida Lupino in "Women's Prison."…
The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn't seen, as well as…
Elsewhere Haneke has described some of his films as anti-narrative. Is it true of "71…
The televisual void has sucked away all vestiges of reality from lived experience: Benny makes…