Thanks for the Use of the Hall

The Big Sleep is a great film – and yet it exposes so many potential problems with the Hawksian process. As a rule, genre is a painted back...

The lists of my favorite New York one-week theatrical releases of 2008, and of my favorite 2008 international premieres, are up at the Auteu...

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's 2008 film Je veux voir ( I Want to See ), which had a one-off NYC screening as part of MOMA'...

The welcome recent revival of interest in the writings of André Bazin is already beginning to expand the range of Bazin resources available ...

It turns out I made a mistake when I decided to host Thanks for the Use of the Hall at my own web site (where I have to pay for bandwidth) ...

Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's 1961 debut feature La Fille aux yeux d'or ( The Girl with the Golden Eyes ) had a small residual reputati...

I have a short piece on French director Jean-Daniel Pollet , subject of a recent retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, up at the Auteurs...