Widower's Tango

The 90th birthday of Max von Sydow was celebrated on April 10, and on April 14 news of the death of Bibi Andersson went round the world....

Already, as early as 1964, John Simon could pronounce that "the New Wave is waning." The French New Wave, that broke upon the i...

Every film has its own history. From the completion of the post production, when positive prints are made from the original negative, to ...

Looking up articles by John Simon who, now 93, remains the sole surviving film critic of the Golden Age, I came across a querulous piece ...

Michelangelo Antonioni's death on the same day as Ingmar Bergman's (30 July 2003) was comparable to the deaths of F.Scott Fitzgerald...

The Golden Globes How do they do it? How is it possible for the Golden Globes award ceremony to be more unbearable than the Oscars? Perhaps ...

I watched the film The Magic of Fellini (2002) recently. The title (1) nearly kept me away. What is generally regarded as Fellini'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 ...