Jon Halliday’s indispensable Sirk on Sirk has confirmed what Sirk’s admirers and students had long suspected: that his films are not all equally “personal,” and that he had a much[…]
In Douglas Sirk’s world, romantic love doesn’t play much of a part. His characters are boxed into ruts which are ever-deepening; they cannot understand themselves or their desperate predicaments, let[…]
“Once upon a time in sunny California” reads a title card immediately after the credits for Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow. “Once upon a time” triggers an expectation of a fairy[…]
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
Drama · Historical & Epic · Reviews
Criterion’s double-feature DVD features two minor works by two major auteurs
Alexander Payne’s new indie is headed in the wrong direction
Two sides of the same desperate coin
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”
Drama · Experimental & Underground
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
“With my memories I have lit a fire.”
Of course, it’ll cost you
Disturbing movies shouldn’t equivocate
Comedy · Drama · Music & Musicals
“We’re all trying to kill time, but time ends up killing us.”
Plumbing the darkness o “sunny Italy” in the 1970s
