Widower's Tango

F. Scott Fitzgerald On the occasion of the 92nd Academy Awards, I quoted at length the decidedly dim view that Edmund Wilson took of the...

“And yet this book makes one slightly sick.” For me, watching the Academy Awards is not much different from watching the Grammys – a pr...

I have somehow managed, until the age of sixty-one, to avoid the subject of the film noir . At the outset, I feel obliged to say that I am...

Lillian & Dorothy Gish For the past few years, a political movement has been gaining momentum in the world that is best known as ...

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....

As beloved a writer as Jane Austen (1775-1817) is, and has been for 200 years, too often a serious analysis of her "place" among...

Finding myself reading, once again, the film criticism of Stanley Kauffman from the year 2005, and coming across a review of a documentary...

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

The problem I have with scary movies is that, with notable exceptions, they no longer scare me. I was plenty scared by them when I was a ...