Widower's Tango

What is the role of the critic? This is a question that demands an answer today more than ever before. The vast majority of readers, conce...

In keeping with one of American cinema's oldest traditions, Martin Scorsese is responsible for some of the bloodiest films ever made. ...

In 1944 W. H  Auden wrote to the editors of the magazine The Nation praising the weekly column by James Agee, calling it "the most ...

Reading Theodore Huff's monograph on Charlie Chaplin, the existence of which evidently depended greatly on Chaplin's approval of H...

At the end of his book Down and Out in Paris and London , his exploration of the underbelly - the "dirty handkerchief" side - of...

"His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after  day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into f...

Today is the 10th birthday I have celebrated on this blog, even though I didn't take the time last year to do so. But then, last year ...