The Director as Sociopath …

Quentin Tarantino has formidable filmmaking skills, rooted in his deep knowledge of movies famously acquired during his years as a video store clerk. His ability to create images, to build fluid visual progressions and elaborate displays of action, is complemented by a savant’s dazzling knack for exhilaratingly wordy dialogue rich in non-narrative tangents and the […]

Blasts from the past

Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979):
Criterion Blu-ray review

Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky (1976): Criterion Blu-ray review

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Year End 2010

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