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In Full Bloom: Days of Daisy (2022)

August 11, 2022

Plot lines about women wanting babies are as old as time, and can easily degenerate into sexist tropes. Daisy’s desire to have a kid doesn’t define her. Instead, over the[…]

Drama · Romance

Billy Wilder’s “Home Run with the Bases Loaded”: Some Keys to The Apartment

January 7, 2022

In the corporate world the film depicts, the lower-level executives are small-time Lotharios who seek no more than sex from female underlings. Their boss, however, battens on the love he[…]

Directors · Essays · Romance · Writers & Critics

Vertigo and Lolita: The Supreme Love Fictions of the 20th Century?

September 11, 2021

But these reflections bring Vertigo down to “depressing” reality. The view that reality is a downer redeemable only by “exalted seeing” is the basis for James Harvey’s disparagement of 1950s[…]

Comedy · Directors · Drama · Essays · Romance · Silents

The Masters’ Master: Ernst Lubitsch and The Marriage Circle

June 15, 2018

Excerpted from McBride’s new critical study, How Did Lubitsch Do It? (Columbia University Press, June 2018), with the kind permission of the author. * * * To maintain the admirable[…]

Directors · Interviews · Romance

Staging Pleasure: In Conversation with The Love Witch’s Anna Biller

May 1, 2017

On The Love Witch: “I like to make films with a kind of dream logic. My films are a mix of reality and fantasy, or a mix of what is[…]