Widower's Tango

"The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what  was great grows small; w...

Ingmar Bergman's films roughly classifiable as comedies were rare but sometimes marvelous. Think of Waiting Women (1952), little ...

What is cinema ? is suddenly a question on people's lips. But how many of the people asking it really want to know the answer? Last we...

Woody Allen was seen recently in France where his latest - and 48th - film, A Rainy Day in New York just opened in theaters. Regardless o...

In my last post I mentioned how Martin Scorsese had made dismissive comments about the slew of superhero movies that threatens to engulf t...

Here we are again. Yesterday, The Guardian reported that Martin Scorsese , arguably the greatest living American filmmaker, was asked wh...

With two novels behind him, Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) Saul Bellow applied for a Guggenheim grant three times before it ...