Thanks for the Use of the Hall

At the end of Aldrich's The Last Sunset (spoilers from beginning to end of this post), there is an unusual series of long shots that tr...

I've been hesitating to tackle this follow-up to last month's "Artifice or Fantasy" post , because I see serious problems ...

"One sees the danger," said Andre Bazin of the fledgling politique des auteurs , "which is an aesthetic cult of personality....

In the comments to my last post on Pretty Poison , Peter Nellhaus mentioned that Noel Black had been removed from the 1980 A Change of Seas...

Some of the most important things a director can do are practically invisible even to specialists. Case in point: Pretty Poison , directed b...

I can't think of any movie experience remotely like Hollis Frampton's Zorn's Lemma (I think I'll just use the apostrophe in ...

While watching Rossellini's A Pilot Returns tonight (rather good, despite an unremarkable first half hour), it occurred to me that Ross...