My Favorite Movies: Moulin Rouge!
A screen on a stage. And then another stage. And a typewriter. Stories of stories of stories. The postmodern playfulness of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! has been commented upon endlessly, but […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Double Feature: The Letter and Black Narcissus
These two films make fascinating companions, mostly for their similarities but for a few differences too. The differences are plain to see — a black-and-white American film about a businessman’s […]
Oscar 2014
Three years in, the Academy’s idea for adding drama to the nomination process (by leaving the number of Best Picture choices uncertain) doesn’t seem to be working. We’ve gotten nine […]
