Widower's Tango

I was moved to watch The Blue Angel (1930) last week, after reading one of Stanley Kauffmann's reviews - something I do almost daily,...

In the long and mostly unrewarding history of remakes, nothing better illustrates the differences between Hollywood and the rest of the ...

No journey is truly aimless. There is always some ineluctable force that drives us this way or that, with or without an itinerary. Explore...

Every now and then there are reports in the news about a Japanese prime minister visiting a shrine called Yasukuni that honors - or at le...

Last month, a reader commented on my post, " Pitched in Judah ," and I responded. Succeeding comments developed into a debate t...

Mike Hodges (born 1932) made as big a splash with his debut movie, Get Carter , in 1971 as any other British filmmaker since Lindsay And...

Moritz Thomsen is one of my heroes, one of a handful of people who decided to live his life according to principle - one of which was for...