Widower's Tango

"Is there no by-law in America to prevent dogs from entering cemeteries?" (Charles Baudelaire, commenting on the scabrous notice...

I do not know, and I have never claimed to know, anything about being an editor of creative or scholarly writing, but I think that uttering ...

From time to time, without expecting much, I follow the fate of Bert Cardullo, once respected film and theater scholar, whose voluminous p...

Quite by chance, in August 2010, I read an article in The New Yorker (on its website, that is) by Richard Brody called " Truffaut...

One of the problems of publishing in general - and publishing online in particular - arises when no one reads what one has written. A websit...

After contacting Gary Morris, co-editor with Bert Cardullo of the book Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contem...

[The following piece, published in the April-June 2007 issue of Senses of Cinema , was the last thing I published prior to leaving the U.S. ...

First things second, a word about my critical leanings. A long time ago I "liberated" a book from a library merely because it was ...