Thanks for the Use of the Hall

I tend to avoid commemorative pieces: anything sorrowful one writes about a death seems pale. But Lamont Johnson, one of America's best...

Cinema Tropical recently polled 35 experts to create a list of the ten best Latin American films of the decade , and the IFC Center screened...

A short piece I wrote on two favorite scenes from Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons cycle is up at the MUBI Notebook .

Jang Kun-jae's debut feature, which took the Dragons and Tigers award at Vancouver 2009, wastes no time announcing its filmmaker's a...

While watching John Flynn's 1980 Defiance recently, I noted a storytelling pattern that has been honored almost without exception by co...

Hawks fans have always been divided on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes : some rate it high, others have trouble seeing much of Hawks' personali...

Many have noted that Howard Hawks' comedies are often based on the disorientation and humiliation of the protagonist. It's less fre...