To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2013)
My four-word review of To the Wonder: “more of the same.” Which is not necessarily a bad thing … if you like Malick. To the Wonder continues the autobiographical mode of[…]
Tagged: Ingmar Bergman
Carl Dreyer says Drive Safely and Save Lives!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhxCmm2kh44] They Caught the Ferry (1948) is a short highway safety film – much like the ones we used to watch in Drivers Ed. – produced by the Danish Film[…]
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Actors & Personalities · Reviews · TV & Streaming
Scenes From an Idiot’s Marriage
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A5OfaMlIto] This is my all-time favorite SCTV sketch – a pastiche of Ingmar Bergman and Jerry Lewis, with Andrea Martin as Harriet Andersson and Martin Short (brilliant) as Lewis. Clearly,[…]
Women in Wonderland, Part 5 – Coraline (Henry Selick 2009)
Every one of Henry Selick’s four feature films to date has dealt with alternate realities. In the Tim Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), the ghoulish Jack Skellington finds a[…]
The Actress Meme: Co-Stars
With a tip of the hat and, perhaps, apologies to Nathaniel R, here is my version of his 20 Actress meme – not just 20 favorite actresses, but 20 outstanding[…]
GIRLS (1968), CHE (2008) and other threats
Man, it was really disturbing on a metatextual level to finish watching THE GIRLS (1968) a Swedish intellectual feminist sex farce about a touring company of Lysistrata, and look online[…]
