Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Another clip from Polish director Andrzej Zulawski’s masterpiece Possession (1981), starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. The movie piles on one outrageous, tornado-like scene after another, but it is often…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
A few years ago, when I was finishing up the final edits on Cinema in the Digital Age, a colleague and I got into a heated debate about a section…
Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival Shorts came through town for a one-night only showing, which I caught earlier this week at the grand old Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The…
10/40/70 #30: Machine Gun McCain
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Field Notes: Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone / Thank You All Very Much
I’ve had the book for about a year. Margaret Drabble’s Thank You All Very Much, originally published in 1965 as The Millstone. My copy, a Signet edition from 1969, was…
10/40/70 #29: Duel in the Sun
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
10/40/70 #27: Shadow of a Doubt
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
The Girl with the Hidden Face
I’ve been a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy for over fifteen years, but it wasn’t until last month that I noticed the girl shielding her face from the…
10/40/70 #25: The Hitch-Hiker
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Women in Trouble
While we usually classify films in terms of their genre, or their director, or the actors, what if, instead, we looked for visual patterns that linked them? An auteur theory…
What’s in a Name? JCPenney and The Dunce Cap
A few weeks ago, a slim catalog from JCPenney arrived in our mailbox. It floated around the house for a few days. On its cover are printed these words: littleredbook…
10/40/70 #23: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…