On Getting Into Europe and Film Festivals

In 1989 France celebrated the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Rights Of Man and of the…

A few years ago, before the last U.S. presidential election, I was among the invited guests to watch…

Mushrooms frequently popped up in films in 2017 as a way women chose to poison men. I am thinking…

A Cinema of Limits

I spoke last time about a Cinema of Limits. This approach draws particularly on the experience of…

Not Seeing It All

I have become interested in a style of filmmaking that foregrounds its limits. Not everything is shown…

Richard Ledes’ The Dark Side

Richard Ledes’ The Dark Side positions its viewer on a critical edge. In The Pleasure of the Text…

Review of The Dark Side

I’ll begin with a vision of fire, the opening sequence of The Dark Side: the words “all that is solid melts…

The Second Game

“The Second Game” by Corneliu Porumboiu is is an uncut 1988 soccer game between the Romanian…

Democracy and Cinema

There’s this joke. Spielberg dies. He goes to heaven and is standing before the archangel Michael. The…